Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.
Jonathan HaidtMorality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams … but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
Jonathan HaidtWe can call this "the progress principle": Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them. Shakespeare captured it perfectly: "Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."
Jonathan HaidtOur moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
Jonathan Haidt