Heterogeneous Genius

#34 Suicide


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New bumper music for the show! Brandon is back in the Middle East. We discuss suicide, and whether we hold that as a valid option for our futures. What is your personal threshold for pain and suffering before such an option is to be exercised? We then turn to speaking about euthanasia for humans. Brandon relates a story of a man who killed his wife who was painfully suffering from cancer. Can you impose an ethical standard on society? And where does an individual's sense of ethics and morality come from? This turns us, again, to the argument of eugenics and selective human breeding. It is asked: what has more influence on our behavior as adults, nature or nurture? And should either or both of these components be regulated? Brandon says, if you want to change culture, you have affect people's smaller social circles. That's what will change behavior. Back from the break, Brandon asks about hate. We define and discuss the topic. How can this emotion be managed? Ruben suggests there are those who operate mainly on their emotions (action guys), and those who operate mainly on their rationality, who second guess their emotional urges and often don't act (even when they should). Brandon links this to either being passionate or not so. We finish the show inspecting the notion of man's urge to both create and destroy.
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Heterogeneous GeniusBy Ruben James & Brandon McGowan