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Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

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The Impartial Observer and Morality

Adam Smith talks about how the impartial spectator stands for your and my discovery of how our behavior is responded to by other people. He describes what I think is rather a good feedback loop. We came up with these rules among ourselves through some kind of feedback loop, but it doesn't involve law giver that wrote them. And yet they're everywhere when you think about it.

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