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Morality Emerges Through Play
The discovery that repeated voluntary play among juvenile male rats leads to an implicit morality emerging from their interactions highlights the importance of fairness in social dynamics. Specifically, when a dominant rat fails to allow the smaller rat to win at least one-third of the time, the smaller rat ceases to engage in play. This finding underscores a patterned moral order that develops through such iterative play, challenging notions of moral relativism by demonstrating that even in animal behavior, principles of fairness and cooperation are observed.