If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

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.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree.