AS147: Tommentary

AS147: Tommentary

Author: seriouspod.com June 22, 2015 Duration: 38:27

It’s with a heavy heart that I have to launch on another Tommentary. Pretty much every time there’s a horrible massacre, there are a number of things to react to. Here’s an article I talked about toward the end that was very interesting: http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/people-do-violence-because-their-moral-codes-demand-it/

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