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Your Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
- Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
- As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
- Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So…
- If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what…
- One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most…
- The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
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