Animal Sociality (feat. Cynthia Willett)
Overthink
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Ethics
Elephants are like humans, and if they witness great drama, then that violence can take a really tragic, spiralling downward kind of movement. And so you tend to have that formation of the more violent gangs that can act out of blind rage and sometimes self-destruction. So i'm thinking here about, like, i usually think of ethics as the golden rule, these really abstract and strict axioms that we communicate in language. But it sounds like you have much broader conceptions of ethics. And for you, ethics also evolves out of play.
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