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Stephen Fry: Suffering, Capitalism & What it Means to be Human

Into the Magic Shop

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The Hobbesian View of Mankind

My goal has been to promote kindness, compassion as a narrative. But you come into contact with people who are just in many ways the most hateful people in the world. Even though I'm a white Christian nationalist, which I find just extraordinary. We've got a new thinker. Martin... Martin? No, it's not Martin. Something... Regman. He wrote a book called Humankind. And it is exactly about empathy and kindness. The most famous bit in it was a bit of research he did because he wanted to question Hobbesian view of mankind. So what is a human being? Are we savage animals? Are we blissful and nice? It's been a big debate

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