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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Reason in Morality

I don't think it's as easy to do as we all sort of intuit. I think you can arrive at morality through reason and I think that infinite chain of wise would also exist for a religious person. What religion has really done is provided a code for existing social norms which were often reinforcing or programming to begin with. If you don't believe in something that there's no evidence for, it's not something you choose, it just is what it is.

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