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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments

Modern Wisdom

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You Can't Choose What You're Attracted To

There's a fascinating intuition when it comes to people that are attracted to kids. Most people have generally accepted in, uh, in other contacts, that sexual desire is is a moral you can't be held responsible for a mear sexual desire. You can only be he beheld responsible for acting upon it. It's like case that if i were to go into your brain personally and like on purpose, like remove a part of your brain, such that next time you want us to do something immoral, you, your brain just literally wouldn't be capable of stopping you. And so let's think about somebody who commits a moral crime. Let's say they're committing it because there's a

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