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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
We're a Social Species
i think there's just as much of an animal instinct to be good in us as as there is bad. People who were nice to their children tended to leave more children behind than people who weren't nice to their children. There are social species that collaborate with other ones. And they do so often with a form of collaborate with strangers, as it were. You know, you scratch my back, and i'll scratch yours. I'll be nice to you to day, you'll be nice to me to morrow. When a fishvisi visitsa a cleaner station on the reef and allows small fish to clean the parasites off it, it's resisting the temptation to eat the clean fish
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