collapse of cooperation across party lines.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Most societies have chosen the sociocentric answer, placing the needs of groups and institutions first, and subordinating the needs of individuals. In contrast, the individualistic answer places individuals at the center and makes society a servant of the individual.

religion is (probably) an evolutionary adaptation for binding groups together and helping them to create communities with a shared morality.

that altruism is mostly aimed at members of our own groups.

the most cohesive and cooperative groups generally beat the groups of selfish individualists.

Moral intuitions arise automatically and almost instantaneously, long before moral reasoning has a chance to get started, and those first intuitions tend to drive our later reasoning.

intrinsically moralistic, critical, and judgmental.

the rider’s job is to serve the elephant.