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Full Video: Acharya Prashant with Harvard-Educated Psychologist Dr. Melanie Joy || London, UK Tour (2026)

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Video Information: 06.07.2026, Interview with Melanie Joy, Giles High St, London

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00:00I'm a mean fellow. I'm kind only to myself.
00:04Then I say, okay, I'm evolving.
00:05And I become kind to my parents, to my wife, to my kids.
00:10Then I'm saying, okay, I'm evolving even more.
00:14And then, okay, fine, this is my society.
00:17And so many apartments here and I'll be nice to each one of them.
00:21And then to my district.
00:23But then each of these is exclusive.
00:25And the whole purpose of drawing a line somewhere is so that those who are outside the line can still
00:33be morally killed.
00:35I love my countrymen.
00:36And that entitles me to slaughter those who are outside my country.
00:42That's the ego at work.
00:44And this step will show up as moral.
00:47It is for the sake of my country that I am butchering the outsiders.
00:53We talk of, for example, speciesism.
00:57You see the relationship here?
01:00Absolutely.
01:01Yeah, but that is so beautifully stated.
01:05And it's like what we were talking about earlier.
01:07Change from the outside in to some degree.
01:10But it's the inside out.
01:12Once this is dissolved, then the rest takes care of itself.
01:15So that's beautiful.
01:16Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
01:18As I said, I was doing research for the film and, you know, gathering lots of great information.
01:24And it was very personally relevant and really impactful for me to hear your words and be.
01:31I've been deeply touched by them and moved by them, as I know millions of others have been.
01:35So it's been such an honor.

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