Episode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

As parents we like to think we have an impact on our children - their future, their happiness, the kinds of people they turn out to be. But
are we deluded? Dave and Tamler are joined by empathy's kryponite, the great Paul Bloom, to talk about Judith Rich Harris's view that parents matter a lot less than you might think (while genes and peer groups matter a lot more than you might think) .

Plus, what the connection between art and morality? Should we support "cancel culture"? Is it wrong to play Michael Jackson's P.Y.T. (spell it out) on the radio? What about the Jackson 5? And what about art that is itself immoral? You're not gonna believe this but Louis CK gets mentioned.

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Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	You keep the faith in me? I do my math. You my favorite man. Can you take it, baby?
0:24.3	The way that I'm on has been spoken.
0:30.7	I do attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:35.4	Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad men.
0:45.9	I'm a very good man. Good man.
0:49.1	Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:18.2	We have Paul Bloom with us again today.
1:21.6	Paul, are you going to make us talk about sex robots again?
1:26.0	All episodes that have me on will have to have about 45 minutes on the sex robots.
1:31.2	Should we just jump in? Are you guys want to?
1:34.1	You know that mythical claim that if you click on enough Wikipedia links, it'll lead back to philosophy.
1:40.7	If you talk long enough to Paul Bloom, it'll probably lead back to sex robots.
1:45.2	I mean, like five minutes. It really doesn't have to be that long.
1:51.0	Once you go beyond a pleasant reason.
1:53.6	Look, we're already talking about it.
1:56.2	You know, just in case people are new to this, I have no interest in talking about sex robots.
2:01.0	This is just something that you guys have pinned on me.
2:03.7	It's our stick, but it's, you know, stick is sometimes based on facts.
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