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No Stupid Questions

40. Have We All Lost Our Ability to Compromise?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Also: is it better to be right or “not wrong”?

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0:00.0

Look at me, I'm a Paragon of Integrity.

0:02.4

Hey!

0:03.2

I'm Angela Duckworth.

0:04.4

I'm Stephen Dupner.

0:05.4

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:08.8

Today on the show,

0:10.0

whatever happened to our ability to compromise,

0:13.2

I don't need to debate with you

0:14.6

about whether the world is round or flat.

0:16.7

We know it's flat.

0:18.4

Also, what is the difference between not being wrong

0:22.1

and being right?

0:23.3

I think I can be obnoxious in my desire to be right.

0:26.9

Angela, I would submit that most people have a strong sense of right and wrong when you agree.

0:34.7

I would absolutely agree.

0:36.8

Moral right and wrong, right?

0:38.1

Yeah, but even, you know, if you're driving on the wrong side of the road,

0:40.9

you know it, even that's not a moral thing.

0:43.6

As individuals and society, I would argue we really value that distinction between right and wrong.

0:48.8

But I've got it, but it strikes me that this sense,

0:53.1

which is essentially, as you say, a moral judgment,

0:55.5

that it's infiltrated every realm of our lives,

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