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Uploaded by on Jan 22, 2012

Steven Pinker talks about empathy being one of the better angels that is reducing violence.

From Book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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  • [cont.] Plus today with money you can survive perfectly well and most relationships are superficial, we live in mega-cities with millions of strangers, not in a small group of hunter-gatherers with long lasting relationships.

  • he makes great points. however, I still think that empathy is overrated. The apex predator does not brutally hunt and kill its prey. Instead, he creates the prey on a farm. And the good cattle..is the calm cattle, not an angry retaliatory cattle. The same applies to the intraspecific competition between humans. A group of "human predators" would benefit from making other people feel empathy (because is more predictable and easy to manipulate) while they operate outside the system.

  • Warm fuzzy things ah!

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