S01E14: Selecting for Deafness - David Deutsch
Dilemma Podcast
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The Paradox of Democracy
Even if Andre and Leslie are right it's still wrong for them to do it against the child's will. The parents in this case are little mini tyrants in their own in their own way as we came to understand really really late in the history of the human species after several hundred thousand years of getting it wrong that there is no authority in regard to truth. If you're going to impose a prohibition on making mistakes you need an authority for what is is or isn’t a mistake and there is no such thing all systems that that purport to have authority also need to be authoritarian, he says.
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