Episode 5: Revenge, Pt. 2: The Revenge

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2012

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Tamler continue their discussion about their favorite topic. They talk about the evolutionary origins of retributive behavior, cross-cultural differences in revenge norms, and the proportionate punishment for someone who gives your wife a foot massage. They also play a clipfrom an interview they conducted in Nosara with local attorney Andres Gonzalez about the Costa Rican treatment of the criminals they call 'pobrecitos.'

Links

"Would you give a man a foot massage?"

Robert Frank's Passions Within Reason, one of the best books of the last 100 years.

Tamler's article "The Two Faces of Revenge"

Dave's post for the Harmony Blog: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Become a Philosopher-in-Residence."

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:07.6	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:11.0	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of lead to say, and knowing
0:15.7	my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:18.8	Oh, it's the theory.
0:25.8	I'm waiting on his phone.
0:30.8	Wait no attention till I stand behind the curtain.
0:37.8	Who are you?
0:39.8	Who are you?
0:40.8	I'm very bad man.
0:41.8	I'm a very good man.
0:42.8	Good.
0:43.8	Good.
0:44.8	Good.
0:45.8	Good.
0:46.8	Good.
0:48.8	Good, man.
0:51.8	Talk to people, and when no one reigns in your hands.
0:55.8	Stay neither attention till i stand.
1:06.3	You're a very bad man!
1:08.3	I'm a very good man.
1:10.3	Just a very bad wizard.
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