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What animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity with Justin Gregg

ReThinking

CHAPTER

Animals and Morality

It is very difficult to be moral without intelligence. We need higher-level reasoning capabilities to make ethical decisions. It's really hard for a two-year-old to make moral choices with the same sophistication or the same virtue as an adult could. Most of the terrible genocides committed in our past are based on people who thought that they work morally correct, he says.

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