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Can a utopia exist with prisoners, irrational people, and disabilities? We're glad you asked! No, really. We're glad you asked. Otherwise, we made this video for nothing.
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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature The unwanted last
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month Why does this utopia have prisoners One of the
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reasons they have prisoners is there going to be threats
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from the outside So there on an island and people
- 00:21
will try to attack the island and that's one way
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that they might know prisoners There will always be people
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who break rules for various reasons It's a society that
- 00:28
anticipates that but then anticipates that those people can be
- 00:32
sort of convinced logically to do like the right thing
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after a while does this utopia have irrational people I
- 00:42
think it's just assumed that everyone is pretty rational That's
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a really key feature utopias actually is that they assume
- 00:52
that everyone is sort of basically happy and has simple
- 00:56
needs and is rational and cares about others and that's
- 01:00
so often why they don't work Because you know in
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real life people are self interested People think in all
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sorts of different ways and they want all sorts of
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different things So it's very hard for everyone to live
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in harmony Does this utopia have people with any disabilities
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Or is everyone just perfect Yeah Everyone's perfect I mean
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this is partially because this utopia is an island that
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has been colonized Its a society that has been made
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on the people who made it kind of made it
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very intentionally It's not a vision You know the world
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from the beginning of time evolving into this society So
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a lot of the problems that you have just wouldn't
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exist because they wouldn't have let them in in the
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first place Yeah Why does this utopia have prisoners Does
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this utopia have irrational people Does this utopia have people 00:01:59.779 --> [endTime] with any disabilities Or is everyone just perfect
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