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Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The One on One Morality

You make a distinction between what you call one to one sense of morality, and then a larger community concern. This idea of things happening on a communal level seems more typically human. You have sumning some examples? There are examples in chimponses, for example. Chimponse adult males, alpha male, he will break up fights,. And he does so impartially he's not supporting his friends. His best friend may be attacking a female. He's going to defend the female against his best friend. So that's in the best interest of the whole group. O he shows and it's important function. We humans wild take that much further. If i walk in my neighbourhood

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