Jonathan Haidt
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 24 Jun
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Like, no, we shouldn't be gambling.
Now, you don't want to 100% ban it because then you get various problems.
So fine, it's in Vegas.
You can get to Vegas.
You can gamble.
You can come back.
A lot of friction.
But if you have a coherent moral canopy, then you have a society that's capable of making judgments.
But because social media has shredded, now there are other things.
It was already decaying.
It wasn't just social media.
But social media has played a huge role in just shredding any sense of agreement about what's true and what's good and what's beautiful.
And so we are finding ourselves unable to make judgments and unable to say, this is insane that we are throwing our children into a world of gambling and porn and nicotine.
I mean, that may be part of it, but the thing that I'm focused on as a social psychologist who studied sort of the evolution and origin of morality is...
moral truths seem to us to be like facts.
Like it's just obviously wrong to kill people, to discriminate based on race.
It seems like a fact of the universe.
Now it's not, they're interesting emergent facts.
We can talk about that later or some other day, but that's the way it feels.
And so when kids are growing up and everybody agrees,
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