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Moral Psychology Is a Hodgepodge
The way the mind really worked is it's a hodgepodge. I don't think we have any sort of moral principles in that simple sense baked into our heads. We have systems that have evolved to deal with our kin those we love. The only with friends and they were getting to sort of different evolutionary story reciprocal altruism. Deal with strangers and that's entirely different story altogether. Part of this is hardwired but part of it is of course cultural. Your views on slavery, your views on what you owe to strangers will be very different to your ancestors 200 years ago because just how you were raised. And so it's not going to be a complete coherent story. Some of