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Friday, November 27, 2009

Compassion as an Evolutionary Development

Remember that we were taught that without the Toire there is no morality?
Robert Wright argues that much of compassion that we have for others and the golden rule (reward good deeds and punish bad ones) can be explained by evolution as well:

I am looking forward to an interesting discussion in the comments :)

PS A transcript can be found here.

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