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Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation

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The Moral Emotions of Kindness

There's all of these moral motivations that come to us just as akin to hunger or lust. We want to help people. If we see people being treated unfairly or cruelly, we want to punish bad people. And so you have this suite of moral emotions that exist through natural selection. But they're very rarely cynical.

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