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Podcast: The Bible as Literature
Episode: Égoïsme à deux
Description: People love to defend themselves. They defend their choices. They defend their group. They defend their rights; their property; their beliefs. Oh, yes, and people love to be right. They love it. It's like a drug. They love it so much that when something goes unavoidably wrong, they devise clever ways to blame other people. Human beings are so committed to defending themselves that in the US alone, we spend $234 billion annually on legal fees. That's enough money to stop world hunger for 8 years. Now, what if I told you about an ancient method of conflict resolution guaranteed to...