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Wild Problems - A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

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In Game of Thrones, there's these high sex and they're supposed to be a parallel to the Catholics or something. So that is all this sort of logic of negative mimise. My book is Wild Problems, a guide to the decisions that define us. These big decisions define who we are. And so when we make those decisions, we shouldn't just look at the narrow utilitarian calculus. We should consider how it's going to affect how we see ourselves. Who we actually are, our essence. That's the central claim of my book. But I think George is kind of skeptical about that as a path of authenticity.

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