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Megan Phelps-Roper on the Value of Empathy

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast

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Your Grandfather Could Have Ended Up in the Supreme Court

i saw the story. Your grandfather could have ended up in the supreme court. But he chooses to walk this incredibly narrow path of dogmatism. He was just utterly convinced that his view of the bible was the only real, true, inali understanding of it. The fact that he was so smart is part of what, that's part of the trap, right? Becauseo th i remember reading an article in the new yorker about howsmart, very intelligent people are actually more likely to join colts because they know they're smart. They underestimate their a susceptibility to these common cognitive human flaws.

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