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#136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Problem With Inflicting Suffering
I think there's some way in which your existence, your presence in the world leads to pain and suffering and destruction for many others. So I suppose it's somehow deeply connected to this other slippery word which is suffering as you create suffering in the world. The problem is the question of the reason for inflicting suffering. Sometimes one might inflict suffering upon one group of individuals in order to maximize a lack of suffering with another group of individuals or one who might not be considered evil at all might make the rational, seemingly rational choice of inflicting pain and suffering on a smaller group of people. He seems to have brought more evil onto this world than almost any human in history. And that's stuck with me
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