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Our moral psychology is the societal equivalent of cancer-suppressing mechanisms in multicellular organisms. The coercive side of morality is required to suppress the potential for disruptive self-seeking behaviors within groups. Once the coercive side is established, then it becomes safe for group members to freely help each other without fear of exploitation.
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
Storing surplus food only postpones the problem. Worse, it aggravates it, by giving farmers misleading signals to the effect that they should continue growing more foodgrains instead of diversifying their crops. Sooner or later, this is bound to lead to a glut in the foodgrain market and a collapse of market prices, defeating the price-support policy.
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
The history question acknowledges that cultural evolution, like all forms of evolution, can be highly path-dependent. Cultures don’t just change in any direction. Different histories mean that different mechanisms for regulating social processes are likely to have evolved (the mechanism question) and these mechanisms are likely to be transmitted across generations in different ways (the development question).
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
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