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Benevolence Should Be Prized Over Cognitive Ability

When choosing characteristics for one's own children, nearly everyone would choose a child of moderate ability who is benevolent, loving and kind over a psychopathic genius, which reveals that benevolence, love and kindness are in fact more important values than cognitive ability — and society should price and reward these higher values more overtly.

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Speaker

Arthur Brooks

Evidence Quote

that's an important value for our society to start pricing and be more overt about as far as i'm concerned

Source

291 - Where Is HappinessMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:00:59 AM

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