{"id":3420,"date":"2025-07-21T20:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:36:22","slug":"blindsided-08-is-it-wrong-to-torture-a-roomba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpmorpodcast.com\/?p=3420","title":{"rendered":"Blindsided 09: Is It Wrong to Torture a Roomba?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51arrvR+m3L._SL500_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join Brian and Steven as we put jumper cables on this roomba to see if it feels pain!<\/p>\n<p>The book doesn&#8217;t have chapters in the traditional sense, but it does have natural stopping points separated by quotes.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/blindsided.replit.app\/#\">companion website<\/a> sxp made!<\/p>\n<p>The starting quote for this episode is: <strong>&#8220;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?&#8221; \u2014Pierre Troubetzkoy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode&#8217;s discussion ends at the quote: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>&#8220;If I can but make the words awake the feeling&#8221; \u2014Ian Anderson, Stand Up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For next week, stop reading when you get to the quote: &#8220;<\/span><strong>If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, <\/strong><strong>we would be so simple that we couldn&#8217;t.&#8221; <\/strong><strong>\u2014Emerson M. 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