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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?

Modern Wisdom

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Sympathy in a Small Scale Society

In a small scale society, sympathy makes an awful lot of choice. In much larger societies there aren't the same cooperative dependencies between people who are living in the same city or the same village as you. And so here I think there really isn't the same incentive to feel and express sympathy towards others.

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