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When I started this work the prevailing view about punishment was that punishment was a moral behavior—a moralistic or altruistic punishment where you're suffering a cost to enforce a social norm for the greater good. It turned out that serotonin was an interesting chemical to be studying in this context because serotonin has this long tradition of being associated with prosocial behavior. If you boost serotonin function, this makes people more prosocial. If you deplete or impair serotonin function, this makes people antisocial. If you go by the logic that punishment is a moral thing to do, then if you enhance serotonin, that should increase punishment. What we actually see in the lab is the opposite effect. If you increase serotonin people punish less, and if you decrease serotonin people punish more.
Molly Crockett: "The Neuroscience of Moral Decision Making" | Edge.org
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“I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you’re doing seems like play, you are in it.”
— Joseph Campbell
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That day ended the romance of our marriage; the old feeling became a precious irrecoverable remembrance; but a new feeling of love for my children and the father of my children laid the foundation of a new life and a quite different happiness; and that life and happiness have lasted to the present time.
The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy
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