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About this episode:Why do reasonable people disagree so strongly about right and wrong? And why are we so quick to assume that people on the other side of a moral or political issue are irrational, selfish, ignorant, or simply bad?Michael Shermer speaks with Cornell psychologist Audun Dahl, author.

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