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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| 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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