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#90 - Living With Violence

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Best Gift Any of Us Can Give to Our Society

The best gift any of us can give to not only ourselves, but our society is that we take care of the person whom nature has made us responsible for primarily. The significant issue isn't branding myself in this moment based on my behaviour - it's listening to intuition and having a dialogue with yourself later about why you did or didn't do that. For example, i want to interject a quick thing hereabout about words, is that the root of the word suspicion was also a big teacher for me. That root, suspicere only means to watch. It doesn't mean to hurt somebody. And so if you're suspicious of that guy you're getting into the elevator with, you

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