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488. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?

Freakonomics Radio

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The Circle of Life Is Playing Out in Front of Your Eyes

The more abstract we are, the more removed we are from the point of consequence of our actions, it just loses so much meaning. So is you try to change the system? What levers are you trying to pull? How do youtry to change such a massive system in the direction you think it should be moved? Well, for all the difficulties, the intractable clunkiness of a system, it's not hard to be a little optimistic when you realize we're talking about situations that happen to literally everyone. In a way that gives me optimism and hope that this is the least esoteric issue around, and therefore we must get to it. But from where i sit, ther're

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