Are You a Good Person or a Bad Person?

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i think weare in an error now that is more interested in ethics and what it means to be good. i don't think there's such a thing as empathizing too much with somebody who did something terrible, because i think that makes one less prone to doing something terrible. I guess as you read different books and are exposed to different things, so i'm curiously how do you sort of monitor your personal connections to the things that you're writing about?

Sarah Marshall is a writer and hosts the podcast You're Wrong About.

”I love it when people tell me that listening to the way I talk about these people in the stories that we tell, and just about the world generally, has made them practice empathy more. I almost feel like I have preserved this a-little-bit-past version of myself, because I've been on this journey throughout the pandemic of becoming pretty cynical, and then deciding cynicism is a luxury and that it feels better, ultimately, to try to believe in people.”

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