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#211 — The Nature of Human Nature
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Is It All That Matters?
In the beginning of your book, you write two sentences that fairly floored me because i actually read them. You say that you d writing this book in part due to cowardice, because you recognized how dangerous this used to be. 30 years ago, it was dangerous professionally to study the genetic origins of differences in people's behavior. It could also be dangerous personally to stick your head up above the parapets of academia and talk about these issues to the public. So i think things have changed a lot. In my world, anything less than a full commitment to the blank slate is still taboo. I mean, the people who are trying to cancel j k rolling right now for just admitting that...
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