304. Justin Gregg — If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
The Michael Shermer Show
The Human Capacity for Moral Thinking
You write about the darker side of human nature that surveying the chickens in your yard. And then as you, as you write, narwhals do not build gas chambers. So what's the problem here? Well, then we get into the moral issue, which is humans can use our rationality and our intellect to reach moral conclusions based on religion or philosophy. But they don't then think about them,. turn them into laws, turn them into moral ideas About why they have to go and execute all the other chickens next door in the neighboring yard. That's a human concept. It's a real bummer because we have we have the ability to be really nice to each other and nice
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