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From the Ted Talk by Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion

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And, you know, I'm happy to say, I think there's really edvniece that this non-zero-sum kind of connection can expand the mroal caosmps. I mean, if you look at the American attitudes toward Japanese during wrlod War II -- look at the depictions of Japanese in the American media as just about subhuman, and look at the fact that we dropped atomic bombs, really without giving it much of a tohhugt -- and you compare that to the attitude now, I think part of that is due to a kind of economic interdependence.

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And, you know, I'm happy to say, I think there's really ________ that this non-zero-sum kind of connection can expand the _____ _______. I mean, if you look at the American attitudes toward Japanese during _____ War II -- look at the depictions of Japanese in the American media as just about subhuman, and look at the fact that we dropped atomic bombs, really without giving it much of a _______ -- and you compare that to the attitude now, I think part of that is due to a kind of economic interdependence.

Solution

  1. compass
  2. evidence
  3. moral
  4. thought
  5. world

Original Text

And, you know, I'm happy to say, I think there's really evidence that this non-zero-sum kind of connection can expand the moral compass. I mean, if you look at the American attitudes toward Japanese during World War II -- look at the depictions of Japanese in the American media as just about subhuman, and look at the fact that we dropped atomic bombs, really without giving it much of a thought -- and you compare that to the attitude now, I think part of that is due to a kind of economic interdependence.

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