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EP290: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p1 of 2)

EP290: Leopold and Loeb - Nein Übermenschen (p1 of 2)

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In 1924, two wealthy, brilliant University of Chicago students set
out to commit what they believed would be the perfect crime.Nathan
Leopold and Richard Loeb believed themselves intellectually
superior and beyond ordinary moral restraint. Inspired (and deeply
misreading) the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, they convinced
themselves that rules applied to other people.It became the first
true Trial of the Century. A national referendum on free will,
punishment, privilege, youth, psychology, and whether the state
should answer killing with killing.Were Leopold and Loeb
supermen?Or were they privileged, deluded young men who mistook
intelligence for immunity? Join us as we dismantle the
myth.Because intelligence without empathy is not superiority. It’s
danger.