Exploring Various Listener Suggestions and Potential Future Topics

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The chapter covers a wide range of topics suggested by listeners, including immortality projects, ethics of caring for animals, and evolutionary psychological reasons behind human conceptual binaries. The speakers discuss prioritizing future episodes based on listener requests, touching on everyday moral dilemmas, hypocrisy, and the dynamics of relationships and emotions related to jealousy and envy.

David and Tamler continue their discussion of Dostoevsky's funny, sad, philosophical novella Notes From Underground. We focus on part 2 this time - three stories from the Underground Man's past - and explore what the stories tell us about his existentialist rants in part 1. Is he consumed with guilt over his treatment of Liza? Is he ashamed of his social awkwardness, low status, and self-destructive behavior? Or is he a narcissistic proto-incel suffering from an especially acute case of spotlight effect? (As usual, the answer is probably some combination of all these and more.) Plus, we select the finalists for our Patreon-listener selected episode. Thanks to everyone for their support!

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