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The Allure of the “Natural” (with Alan Levinovitz)

Free Thoughts

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Is There Something Impure About Humankind?

People often blame the unnaturalness of something for the harm that it causes, but they will never praise the unnaturalness. There's an assumption of human impurity, or absence of wisdom, or humorous is another form of the same thing. If that's what people are wary of when they're weary of natural interventions, i think, i think that's very reasonable. However, that that needs to come with the flip side, which is that we're also capable of extraordinary good.

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