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"Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil?"
« on: June 07, 2014, 01:22:48 PM »

I'm a fan of the series "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman." One of the episodes I have on my DVR right now is "Can We Eliminate Evil?"

It was a particularly well-done episode that discusses human behavior and the human brain, with regard to evil and psychopathy. It even wanders into socialism (without saying so) and fascism (without pointing a finger at the US.) It ends with positive notes about violence decreasing. A researcher actually used cooperation and violence in the same sentence. What's cool about that is that it wasn't stated in the context of government coercion being a positive, but the implication seemed to be there that it was a negative (though he did refer to "the rule of law" as a positive, which seems to be an interesting point of discussion amongst self-described libertarians.) I found the show fascinating.

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After I posted that, I saw the very end, the closing by Morgan Freeman. It disturbingly referenced, positively, the possibility of identifying people prone to violence and "stopping them" before they do evil, which I still consider an evil concept, regardless of what we supposedly "know."
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Re: "Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil?"
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2014, 05:07:03 PM »

I wish YouTube linking worked properly again :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGINaRUEkU

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Re: "Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil?"
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2014, 11:25:45 AM »

Too bad it didn't include a few frames of Amy Mainzer and Janna Levin.

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Re: "Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil?"
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2014, 12:45:48 PM »

And that nerdy chick from SciShow Space. She's cute in a buck-teethy kinda way
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Re: "Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil?"
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2014, 12:49:19 PM »

But seriously Emily Graslie is a totally hot science chick

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Re: "Through the Wormhole: Can We Eliminate Evil?"
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2014, 10:45:55 AM »

Yikes!
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