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Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient Societies

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Moral Intuition Is Ineffable

In order for social norms to evolve, we need to combine moral intuition with a process of codification that happens over a period of generations. We can't just go through life saying, 'You know, just throg it's in your gut' The transmission of tradition is noisy, right? It's very noisy. So sometimes you just need to put these rules and write them down so that people have some notion what they ought to do.

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