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Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)

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The Ungodly Marriage Between Troliology and Evolutionary Psychology

There are only two things you can be, Tamler, and we'll leave it at that. You're a Deontologist yet, you believe in the new minute. I disagree that I'm more content. Like I'm less utilitarian. Those two things. Which means no. It's like I'm like Bernard Williams is not a utilitarian, but he's also not a content. And that's that is the result of there being a widespread use of dilemmas that have two options. So if you only measure people by asking them, do you like A or B, it is just a feature of that question that they're either going to be more towards A or more towards B

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