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Blindsided 09: Is It Wrong to Torture a Roomba?

Blindsided 09: Is It Wrong to Torture a Roomba?

Update: 2025-07-22
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Join Brian and Steven as we put jumper cables on this roomba to see if it feels pain!


The book doesn’t have chapters in the traditional sense, but it does have natural stopping points separated by quotes.


Check out the awesome companion website sxp made!


The starting quote for this episode is: “Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?” —Pierre Troubetzkoy


This episode’s discussion ends at the quote: “If I can but make the words awake the feeling” —Ian Anderson, Stand Up


For next week, stop reading when you get to the quote: “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” —Emerson M. Pugh

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Blindsided 09: Is It Wrong to Torture a Roomba?

Blindsided 09: Is It Wrong to Torture a Roomba?

Steven Zuber