Read Better Books To Be a Better Person 158
00_NOP writes "Researchers from the New School for Social Research in New York have demonstrated that if you read quality literary fiction you become a better person, in the sense that you are more likely to empathize with others [paper abstract]. Presumably we can all think of books that have changed the way we feel about the world — so this is, in a sense, a scientific confirmation of something fairly intuitive."
Better books? (Score:1, Funny)
The last book I read was "The Prince," so fuck you asshole!
I Read Starship Troopers... (Score:3, Funny)
Now I want to kill all the Bugs and blow up their planet...
Re:Nonsense. (Score:5, Funny)
There's a wonderful little joke in my language, and it comes from a time of being a peoples republic:
Capitalism is humans exploiting other humans. Communism is the reverse of that.