The Deep Controversy of Prison Reform

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I think everyone's also the good news is I think everyone's a little embarrassed about what happened critically, the critical reaction to the movie. The same ones who are worried about that twinge of empathy that they were manipulated into feeling for whatever his name,. What's Joker's name in it? Arthur Fleck. They're usually trumpeting feeling empathy for prisoners in general. And I bet you could find individual prisoners that has to be the right one. But this movie is meant to rally the white resentment in this country at a time where we can not afford to have that.

Is character destiny, or can fluky decisions or tiny shifts in weather patterns fundamentally change who we are? Does the existence or non-existence of alternate universes have any bearing on freedom and responsibility? David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” along with another very short piece by Chiang called “What’s Expected of Us” that was first published in Nature.

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