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Frontiers of Human Knowledge w/ Michael Bhaskar

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What's the Point of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

The way in which the universal declaration of human rights was conceived was in reaction to something utterly atrocious like the holocaust. Would we never have considered it otherwise? I think ta case, the sheer horror of what happened definitely added a huge spur to it. So that's the lesson that i take, is that ideas are both deeply caused, but also very dependent on tiny, little circumstances. And you just need everything to come together, and then it can just explode,. seemingly out of no but actually not.

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