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#16 — The Dark Side

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Violence and Punitive Appetite

Violence is inevitable and important for having a good and compassionate society. You need to threat o violence in order to make sure that people honor contracts, that they don't rape and steal and kill one another. If you took away an appetite for violence, for people, a desire to inflict suffering on those who do bad, i thinkthe was fall apart. So paul bloom is against ampathy, but for violence. That'll be good twet. And now i have a subtible for myp well, i agree with that. I think it's also a fascinating area to talk about. But there are so many topics like this now, which are, like just us, radioactive

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