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Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a p...more

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The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.

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I quickly realized that there are two main kinds of diversity—demographic and moral. ... Once you make this distinction, you see that nobody can coher...more

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Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking.

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Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

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Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other matrices. This makes it very difficult for people to ...more

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Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous...more