Episode 27: You, Your Self, and Your Brain (With Eddy Nahmias)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Self-Interest in Parenting
If we define rationality, like the rationality of your decisions in the very narrow way that economists like to define it, which is self-interest, then having children is absolutely the most irrational decision you could possibly make. But on a slightly broader conception of self-interest in which you're just trying to flourish or be happy, you know, certainly for me. I see parents who really does seem like it's a daily trial. And again, this probably isn't going to be true.
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