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Imagine you’re alone in a room. No phone. No windows. No way out.
There’s only one thing in there with you: a giant pile of cocaine.
Maybe you’ve never touched drugs in your life. Maybe you think people who use drugs are bad or morally suspect. But you’re trapped in that room, for an unknown amount of time, and you’ve got nothing else to do.
What happens next?
This is the question the philosopher Hanna Pickard asks in her exquisitely titled book What Would You Do Alone in a Cage With Nothing but Coca...
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