Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.
Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
A good team, like a good show, comes into being when the separate individuals working together create, in essence, another separate higher entity - the team - the show - which is better than any of those individuals can ever be on their own.
I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
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