15 - Robert Sapolsky: Why Society Would Be Fairer If We Stopped Believing in Free Will
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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Is There No Such Thing as Free Will?
I'd probably be a lot happier on a regular basis because this could be kind of demoralizing stuff um most people wouldn't change their behavior in the slightest. If all you do is convince people that everyone was the captain of their ship it's a lot easier to turn and look the other way rather than help someone, he says. liberating people from the notion that they are at fault for the way things have turned out badly is going to be is the cause of a whole lot more misery on earth if we believe free will isn't existent. I'm not entitled to any damn thing more than anyone else because you'd into earn it and you have no grounds for hating anybody because they had
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