I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.