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#602 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature

Modern Wisdom

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The Purity Spirale

The constant one-upmanship toward moral superiority causes the whole group to gradually become more extreme. For example, Maoist China or Twitter echo chambers. I think people have this kind of tendency to turn everything into a competition. And that goes for morality also. You know, if you have a certain dominant ideology, a dominant moral ideology, then people will start competing. They'll turn it into an opportunity to sort of gain an advantage,. This has been shown throughout history. It's something that's fundamental to our species.

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