Look at me!
I'm a paragon of integrity.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Stephen Dubner.
And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
Today on the show, whatever happened to our ability to compromise?
I don't need to debate with you about whether the world is round or flat.
We know it's flat.
Also, what is the difference between not being wrong and being right?
I think I can be obnoxious in my desire to be right.
Angela... I would submit that most people have a strong sense of right and wrong when you agree.
I would absolutely agree.
Moral right and wrong, right?
Yeah, but even, you know, if you're driving on the wrong side of the road,
you know it, even that's not a moral thing.
As individuals and society, I would argue we really value that distinction between right and wrong.
But I've got it, but.
OK. It strikes me that this sense, which is essentially, as you say, a moral judgment,
that it's infiltrated every realm of our lives and that it's risen to a sort of fundamentalism,
not just in moral or religious issues,