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Death and Terror Management Theory with Sheldon Solomon

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Are Death Reminders a Cause of Political Preferences?

Hardygron: A substantial proportion of human kind's most unsavory characteristics are the result of malignant manifestations of repressed death anxiety. He argues that if people were genuinely accepting of their own mortality, we would see less of these other, like i keep referring them to, not particularly optimal human behavior. The hope isis that we can not be so arrogant as to proclaim any more purvew than any other living thing on earth.

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