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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
The Importance of Sympathy in a Human Society
Chimp societies are 100 times to 500 times more violent in terms of the number of violent incidents than humans are, but they are 100 times less lethal. The sooner you move on from it being a pushing, shoving match that's actually going to take quite a while for you to kill somebody else with a heavy rock or a sharp stick or a spear or a gun or a, you know, progress on with your lethality of weapon of choice, you end up having an incentive to very, very much avoid that kind of physical interaction. And I suppose that this is where dominance versus prestige from a leadership perspective comes in. Why in a human society would you want a complete tyrant at the
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