223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
The Michael Shermer Show
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Why Didn't We Get Rid of All the Bullies?
There's a natural trade of where sometimes being a bully, a free rider, you know, a con man, pays off. And so the question is, why wouldn't natural selection operate to get rid of all the bullies? 100 %. There should be no psychopads. But we have like one to three percent cycopats. N why didn't we get rid of them? I think it's sort of a natural,. a, there's a titration where there's some bad acts that we do in our everyday lives that don't get punished," he said.
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