Are You Making a Mistake in Your Moral Code?

"I put more weight on pain that's happening right now in my own family," he says. "We are evolved to have close ties, particularly with our kin." But if you really stop and think, they're people just like you and I, why should we think their pain doesn't matter? So this is the difference between taking an ethical point of view ... and simply following on with the feelings that you may naturally have".