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But also because you have access, you're like, I can Google that.

But if you lived in a world where you couldn't Google it, one of the most common questions I get asked is, are we, because of the easy access to any kind of violent thing you can imagine, like I can type in any violent thing in Google and I could find a video of it probably.

Are we more morbidly curious or is that bad?

I usually say, well, we definitely have more access to it.

And we have access to things that are irrelevant to us.

We have access to things that are happening thousands of miles away that don't pertain to us or anyone we know.

That's not really that helpful.

Now, historically, that would have been helpful because if you saw something like that, you didn't have a screen.

So it's something that happened to you or someone you knew or someone you might know.

It's like in a small community, right?

I don't think it makes us more morbidly curious, though, because 500 years ago, you would have packed up your family and walked five miles to watch a public execution.

Like that takes a lot of motivation to engage your morbid curiosity.

Yeah, exactly.

But it takes a lot of energy and motivation to be like, all right, I'm going to walk barefoot five miles to watch this guy get his head lopped off.

To me, that's just as morbidly curious as watching some videos online, right?

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

One of the unique features of humans, which famous last words, we always end up finding something animals do that we thought was unique to humans.

But one thing that does seem to be somewhat unique to humans is healing.

We heal other members of our species in ways that other animals don't really do.