killing the mandarin

names the secret readiness present even in modern man: would you kill an old mandarin in Peking by a mere act of will, undiscovered, for great profit?

Recast in definition form from: “… could kill, with great profit to himself, an old mandarin …”

Honore de Balzac

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Sigmund Freud

guilt

conscience

murder

temptation

wealth

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brownian ratchet

Buridan's ass

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experience machine

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Linton's axe

mary the colorblind neuroscientist

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philosophical zombie

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false attribution

famous last word

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murphy's law

my wife left me

nonsense question

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pickup line

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reimagining the x

riddle

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someone should invent

stupid law

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there's a word for that

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untranslatable word

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killing the mandarin