Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets … - Frans de Waal

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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

Frans de Waal

Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on humans, which makes them potentially dangerous.

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If you are a cooperative animal, you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in something but then a few individuals receive a much larger return, it's not a good arrangement. If it happens consistently, it's time to look for an arrangement that is more beneficial. That's why we're so sensitive to how rewards are being divided.

Animal, Community, Good, Happens, Return, Sensitive

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. I'm not saying that you can derive moral rules from nature - that's deriving an ought from an is, as the philosophers say - but you do need to know what kind of animals we are if you want to design a stable society.

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Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.

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Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive.

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If you want to design a successful human society, you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a social animal or a selfish animal? Do we respond better when we're solitary or living in a group?

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