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People frequently speak of morality as having evolved. But what, exactly, is it that evolved? People are a lot less clear about this.

Does morality exist in some ultimate, cosmic sense? Hard no.

Does it follow that morality is meaningless? Also no.

Morality isn’t a set of laws etched into the stone tablets of the universe. It’s an evolved feature of social brains. To parrot Jonathan Haidt, we humans share deep moral intuitions: care, fairness, loyalty, authority, sancti…

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