Pope Fiction, You Need to Take a Break From

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Any serious discussion on the relative merits of modern sinema must include at least a brief, brief mention of swingers from 19 96. John favero, ron livingstone and a pre roller girl had their graham. By any measure, this was a huge oversight and maybe even a moral violation. And i have a theory about why she's in the movie, because you need something shiddy to understand what a good thing is. But not pope fcon you need to take a break from.

After discussing some listener feedback about the movie Swingers, Tamler and David talk about two classic experiments in social psychology: the Milgram Experiments and the Zimbardo Prison experiment. They discuss the power of the situation, its influence on recent philosophy, and whether there is room given the evidence to believe in moral character and virtue. Also, Tamler admits to his former struggles with hard core street drugs, and Dave ponders which prison gang would be most accepting if he had to serve hard time.

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"Swingers," Directed by Jon Favreau [metacritic.com]

The Milgram Experiment [Wikipedia.org]

Video clip of a replication of the Milgram Experiment [youtube.com]

The Stanford Prison Experiment [Wikipedia.org]

Short video on Stanford Prison Experiment [youtube.com]

Asch Conformity Experiment [youtube.com]

Jon Doris "Lack of Character" [amazon.com]

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