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Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
“This is far as I go from my house because there’s so much negativity, drugs and violence,” said Williamson, while also lamenting the shift from police officers who walked a beat to ones he said are “being bullies instead of peace officers. We scared to talk to the cops today because we don’t know what state of mind they’re in. So we can get somebo
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Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
The Trolley Problem: A runaway trolley is about to kill five people on the tracks. You can pull a lever to divert it to another track where it will kill only one person. What is the ethical choice? The dilemma explores the conflict between utilitarianism (the greatest good for the greatest number) and deontological ethics (the belief that some acti
... See moreWe are constantly representing people to ourselves in self-serving ways, in ways that gratify our egos and serve our ends. We stereotype and condescend, ignore and dehumanize. And because we don’t see people accurately, we treat them wrongly. Evil happens when people are unseeing, when they don’t recognize the personhood in other human beings.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Galton that if the characteristic behaviors
Samuel Barondes • Making Sense of People: Detecting and Understanding Personality Differences
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Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
defective resistance to criminal tendencies and temptations, due to that ill-balanced
Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
Gary is ten years older than me and perfect for his job. A big chunk of Missing Persons is getting people who stay far from cops to talk to you – street hookers to tell you about the new girl who matches that teenager on the news, homeless addicts to drop by and mention the guy who tried to sleep on their patch last night and looked a lot like that
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