Why Are We Like This?

Why Are We So Destructive?

September 8, 2026·52 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Why are humans so destructive? What makes someone scratch the paint off a Disney attraction, vandalize public property, attack a stranger online, leave trash behind, or make choices that put an entire community at risk? What starts as a question about destruction quickly becomes a conversation about ownership, entitlement, powerlessness, empathy, and our need to feel seen. We talk about why people may destroy things that belong to everyone, why social media makes it so easy to forget the huma...

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