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No Stupid Questions

17. How Can We Get More Virtue and Less ‘Virtue Signaling’?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Also: is it better to be a thinker, a doer, or a charmer?

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0:00.0

When I say that out loud, it sounds kind of terrible.

0:02.4

It sounds like an ogre-ish thing to say.

0:04.7

Hi!

0:05.6

I'm Antelod Duckworth.

0:06.7

I'm Stephen Dubner.

0:07.7

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:11.2

Today on the show,

0:12.5

at a time when there are so many political,

0:14.6

socioeconomic, and environmental issues to worry about,

0:18.0

how do you decide where to invest your energy?

0:21.2

Is there some rank ordering that you've already come to

0:23.6

and like, could I just copy it?

0:26.3

Also, are you a thinker, a doer,

0:29.3

or a charmer?

0:31.0

Jimmy Carter, lusted in his heart,

0:32.5

took a lot of heat from that,

0:33.6

but apparently didn't lusk, you know, out in the real world.

0:38.8

So, Angela, as I understand it,

0:40.8

it is a good thing to care about important things

0:43.5

and other people.

0:44.2

Would you agree with that?

0:46.5

Yes, Stephen, I would agree with that.

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