Sapolsky — “Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral…”

Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst — Robert M. Sapolsky

Book page: sapolsky-behave-part-1

From: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst — Quotes

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Why is it that our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be nonutilitarian? Because, as Greene states in his book, “Our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness.