136. Is Sloth a Sin or a Virtue?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2023-03-05

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  • Do I have any advice about a class action suit with the three toed sloths of the world?

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • Is sloth really a sin, or is it a virtue?

  • People feel like they're at war, but they're not at war with some other enemy outside of themselves.

  • They're at war with the self.

  • Who doesn't want to get off the couch?

  • Angela?

  • Steven, are you feeling fairly sinful today, or at least receptive to speaking of sin?

  • Feeling pretty virtuous today, Steven, but, you.

  • Know, oh, that makes one of us.

  • Okay.

  • All right.

  • So listeners may remember that a few episodes ago, we previewed, essentially, our desire to do a series on the seven deadly sins.

  • We should say these seven deadly sins.

  • I mean, this is a phrase that most of us know, and it comes from the catholic church, and the list has been adapted over the years.

  • Some sins were added to the list, some sins fell off the list.

  • Sometimes sins were combined, and they're not in the Bible.

  • You know, there's no passage in the Old Testament.