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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
How Do Moral Norms Differentiate From Emotions?
The more complex cooperation becomes, the less you can rely on fuzzy emotions and the more you need concrete norms with very specific instructions about what you are and are not allowed to do. So one thing about norms is that they can have a really specific content. They can say, well, if you have cooperated to take down this bison, then you get these parts and the other person gets these parts. That's what the rules say. And it seems like how they all arose is that they co-evault. The emotions are part of our genetic heritage. The norms arepart of our cultural heritage. It's because we've had both of them for so long that we have this
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