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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
We have an inbuilt moral sense that's got a biological basis. But it still requires cultural activation and modification. The analogue to that would be our instinct for language. You can't teach ipanes language because they don't have the biological capacity for it, or not to the degree that we do. We've evolved a higher form of morality gradually by standing back and saying, in this society, what's going to get me the best rewards? It might be something that priests and other ethesists remind us of. And you know, five hundred years ago, the right ethical thing to do when somebody snubbed you was to challenge them to a duel and run them through with a
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