The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those wh…

Steven Pinker
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The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit. ✨ Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai, Steven Pinker (2014). Virtuous Violence, p.16, Cambridge University Press
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The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit. ✨ Alan Page Fiske, Tage Shakti Rai, Steven Pinker (2014). Virtuous Violence, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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