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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
Are There Other Moral Emotions?
There are emotions that keep you in check by getting people to follow the moral rules. So I think of these emotions like shame and resentment. These are fully moral emotions. They're just a little bit different than the ones we've been talking about already. There's another second order set of emotions that are things like guilt on the one hand or shame and resentment or moral anger. That's why seeing videos of two guys fighting in the street feels very different to seeing a video of a guy pushing over Granny. Yeah. The way in which some of the functions of human morality have in recent centuries and decades been outsourced to political legislative enforcement apparatuses.
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