I haven’t seen that belief in Hell improves behavior. And I think it fails for the same reason prison fails to deter crime.
Hell and prison fail for the same reason
Matthew Yglesias is writing a series in defense of the utility of using “left” and “right” to describe the most salient political poles. I don’t yet agree with him. I think “authoritarian” and “liberal” are the most salient political poles. But he makes some interesting points in
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