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236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

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The Moralistic Response to a Crime

There's too much moralizing that goes on, where people get just worked up over anything and everything. In a culture like we are in america, where everyone has guns, the guns are just everywhere, that escalates quickly to homicide. Every society has something to say about homicide. But i don't think we should imagine that they're trying to stop people doing it. We don't not kill people because the law tells us we we shouldn't do it. And so people do am across that line shog.

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