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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker May 17

    Seven Moral Rules Found All Around the World – New cross-cultural survey by Oliver Curry.https://evolution-institute.org/the-seven-moral-rules-found-all-around-the-world/ …

    9:57 AM - 17 May 2018
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      1. Robert Nugent‏ @RandR10 May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        That door the guy on the right is standing in is missing a header.

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      1. Upside Down Duck‏ @downsideupduck May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        “What is morality? And are there any universal moral values? Scholars have debated these questions for millennia. But now, thanks to science, we have the answers.” @peez @tamler Good news! They have the answers. There’s nothing more to discuss. no need to make any more episodes.

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      1. Richard Irving‏ @RichardIrving2 May 18
        Replying to @juliano7s @sapinker

        Did you even read the article???

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      2. Russell Belding‏ @RussellJ60 May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        "And everyone agrees that cooperating, promoting the common good, is the right thing to do." Commie.

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      3. Christopher DeGroot‏ @CEGrotius May 17
        Replying to @RussellJ60 @sapinker

        Extraordinarily trite and naive.

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      1. Robin Herbert‏ @robin_her May 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        It is always an important criterion when deciding how to behave, to know that we have the behaviour because it once increased the probability that a certain pattern in a certain molecule would predominate over other patterns in an ancient and vanished landscape.

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      1. Robin Herbert‏ @robin_her May 22
        Replying to @sapinker

        "everyone agrees that cooperating, promoting the common good, is the right thing to do"??? Sure they do, sure they do.

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      1. Daniel LeBreton‏ @DanLeBretonPhD May 18
        Replying to @sapinker

        I find the "coherent resemblance" notion put forth by Peterson & @MartinEPSeligma w/ their High Six human virtues to be a more useful one with regard to universal virtues.

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      2. Primata  5⃣ 1⃣‏ @atomicprimata May 18
        Replying to @sapinker @EliVieira

        @DINEHRO comenta aqui pra eu ler mais tarde

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      3. savio‏ @DINEHRO May 18
        Replying to @atomicprimata @sapinker @EliVieira

        não, nerd

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      1. Dragoneye‏ @VVVVVV_EYE May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Reassuring☮️🐉👁️

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      2. Dr Jennie C‏ @DrJennieC May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        2012 publication. A little long in the tooth. Disheartening to think that the Masai principle of self sacrifice in battle could be universal. Oh wait...Dulce et decorum est, pro Patria mori...yeah maybe it is...

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      3. Alfred E Newman‏ @Time2worry May 17
        Replying to @DrJennieC @sapinker

        What a bizarre observation. It applies to the Titanic as well. Were it not for this attribute the crew could have scampered away no problema.

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      1. Tristan Tondino‏ @irrealism May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Respecting property is not universal. That’s an example of a naturalistic fallacy if ever there was one. Property never made it into Canada’s constitution.

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      1. charles warren‏ @aitepaeapaea May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        now, about taqqiya...

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      2. John Terces‏ @JohnTerces May 17
        Replying to @sapinker

        Universality of moral principles based on (our evolved) cooperation - i.e. not handed-down by a god

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      3. Alfred E Newman‏ @Time2worry May 17
        Replying to @JohnTerces @sapinker

        to the extant that they are sometimes contra courant human nature- yes they are extra-human for "secularists" or from god for "the ppl that built the civilization that allows u to be so silly"

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      1. Stephen Wright‏ @philosopheritz May 17
        Replying to @sapinker @philosophybites

        What does this actually say? That morality is a collective enterprise to benefit individual lives within a community? Isn't that obvious? Does Robinson Crusoe require a morality? Not until he finds a footprint. We are social animals, as Aristotle says. Say something new!!

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