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#594 - Dr Richard Wrangham - The Incredible Evolution Of Human Violence
Modern Wisdom
Are There Specific Versions of What's Right and Wrong?
In your view, our sense of right and wrong is basically us working out how to avoid being killed by small groups of Alpha males. And the reason that it would be adaptive for everybody within a group to conform to that is that anybody who decides to transgress it is going to pay a very high individual price. Do you have any inclination? Is there any suggestion that this sense ofright and wrong exists outside of culture or each generation must learn what is right and what is wrong and you? Or is there something which is embedded in us genetically, which gives us an inclination toward this too? Or a predisposition, perhaps?
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