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Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

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The Cost Benefit Analysis of Not Using Certain Words

CNN's Jarrett Bellini responds to a letter he received about his use of offensive terms. He says the author never questions what she would be losing if she banned certain words from her vocabulary. There is always a cost to banishing, you know, what people actually want to say and the way they interact with each other,Bellini writes.

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