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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
Jonathan Haidt
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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
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New York City
New York
Jonathan David Haidt
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