What Can I Do? Nothing Is Always Good, Right?

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A lot of academics feel frustrated when they see the stuff on television. It's so infuriating see it happen, but what can i do? Nothing. But i can moralize about it. I can write an ot bed peace. And that makes me feel like i'm doing something, even that im not really do ing. Ahin by the way, paul bloom says, watch out for a the ampathetic thing. He wrote this book called against ampathy. When you ramp up somebody'sempathetic feeling for their fellow group,. That also triggers a zenophobia against other people that are not like us. In our little group that were very ampathetic with each

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