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Is There a Desire to Be Right in Animals?
There's a fundamental question that you got me thinking about, which is there are things we can learn from animals about making morality less difficult. And I think recognizing that problem would allow us to be less destructive and more like animals whose normative systems are generally not as destructive. Because they can't talk about their moral systems and write them down, they don't scale as well. So the desire to be right would require some level of self awareness about understanding what your beliefs are comparing them to the beliefs of others.