Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler talk about the perils of trying to step outside of your own perspective in ethics, science, and politics. What do Rawls' "original position" thought experiment, Pascal's Wager, and Moral Foundations Theory have in common? (Hint: it involves baking.) Plus, what movies (and other things) would serve as a litmus test when deciding on a potential life partner? What might liking or not liking a certain film, book, or TV series tell you about a person, and whether or not the relationship would work? And what sexual position is it rational to choose under the veil of ignorance? (It's a night episode...)

Links

Part 1: Litmus Tests
- The Bad News Bears (1976) [imdb.com]
- A Confederacy of Dunces [wikipedia.org]
- Drive [imdb.com]
  - Every Frame A Painting--Drive: The Quadrant System [youtube.com]
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off [imdb.com]
- The Far Side [wikipedia.org]
- Frank [imdb.com]
- Hustle and Flow [imdb.com]
- Jackie Brown [imdb.com]
- Key and Peele [imdb.com]
- Miracle of Morgan's Creek [imdb.com]
- The Office (UK) [imdb.com]
- Pulp Fiction [imdb.com]
- Spaghetti Western [wikipedia.org]
  - ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement/Dubbing) [wikipedia.org]
- Sullivan's Travels [imdb.com]
- Spellbound [imdb.com]
- Slapshot [imdb.com]
- What We Do in the Shadows [imdb.com]
Part 2:
- Williams, B. (1981). Rawls and Pascal’s Wager. Moral Luck, 94-100. [verybadwizards.com]
  - Moral Luck [amazon.com affiliate link]
- Moral Foundations Questionnaire (30-item) [moralfoundations.org]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	You see now I possess the one Darwinian advantage that humans have over other animals.
0:21.8	The ability to beest my way through anything.
0:24.2	The leading on has spoken.
0:29.2	I know our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:34.2	Who are you?
0:40.2	Who are you?
0:42.2	I'm very bad man.
0:44.2	I'm a very good man.
0:46.2	Good man.
0:47.2	I'm a very good man.
1:12.2	How about that guy for my beat?
1:14.2	Yeah.
1:15.2	Jesus.
1:16.2	That was like getting a little uncomfortable.
1:19.2	Was it getting?
1:20.2	Yeah.
1:21.2	It should feel like a boy or a girl.
1:24.2	I feel like I needed to put a quarter in.
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