We are a highly social species, but what follows from that? Do we have a right to human contact? In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Kimberley Brownlee takes on the difficult question of what sort of contact we owe each other.
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On the question of solitary confinement, you might find this Free Speech Bites interview with the Burmese comedian Zarganar interesting. He was in solitary confinement for 4 years.