Side Taking in the Israel-Hamas Pushing People to Extremes; And, Is Free Will an Imagined Construct?

James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the way many have seemed to want to take sides in an all or nothing way when viewing and discussing the Israel and Hamas war, and how several factors in our society seem to be involved in promoting this approach (1:37). The guys also react to Robert Sapolsky’s premise in his new book “Determined” that humans actually have no free will (45:29).


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