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What’s your ‘red line’? | Jonathan Haidt with Mónica Guzmán

The Braver Angels Podcast

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Are We Selfish or Altruistic?

We are group it so you know there's a big debate in the social sciences in the 20th century whether human beings are basically selfish or altruistic. Part of that I've argued is is to make us groupish that we're actually trying to do what's good for a group survival. So like British soccer hooliganism I don't know if that's still a thing but you know decades ago young men would go to soccer games and Britain looking to bash the heads in of the porters of the other teamSo we're tribal and it's all kinds of things can determine whether that gets turned up into actual intergroup violence as you get with gangs gang warfare or just like playful

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