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The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for power and esteem, coupled with its vulnerability to self-deception and self-righteousness, makes that an invitation to a calamity, all the worse when the power is directed at a goal as quixotic as eradicating human self-interest.

Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.

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