The True Cost of Conviction
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The Michael Shermer Show. All right, here we go. Hi everybody, it's Michael Shermer and it's time for another episode of you know what the Michael Shermer Show here we go I'm gonna open or introduce today's
Episode by reading you a thought experiment, a vignette, as it were. Here is vignette number one. You have Fifty dollars available. A neighbor who just lost their job comes by and says they need fifty bucks.
To buy a meal plan for their child. Otherwise your child will not have lunch at school. Can you give them the money? You asked two friends for their advice. Frankie thinks about it for quite a while.
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