Book challenge: in this thread:
1. Comment a view that you strongly disagree with but is held by someone in your sphere.
2. Reply to comments with a smart/compassionate book that supports a view someone else disagrees with.
3. Pledge to read a book someone responds to you with.
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Also I encourage clarifying your view so the people recommending books have more information!
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That the average educated American is making the world worse off by having children, and it's unethical to procreate even if you lean towards wanting children.
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1 - The idea of a 'universal human nature' (popular in EvPsych) is at best meaningless and at worst incoherent. There is no reason to expect domain-specific behavior to be so universal and static as to be explicable through 'human nature' when everything else has adapted locally.
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My best friend is a really good guy and dear friend in every way that a friend could be, but he's a flat earther and is down that rabbit hole pretty deep (along with other related conspiricies).
