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Does Morality Do Us Any Good? | The New Yorker

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Our basic sense of right and wrong appears to be the product of blind evolution. The hard question is how unsettling that should be.

Save this story Save this story Nothing kills your appetite, they say, like discovering how the sausage is made. In the realm of superhero cinema, origin stories explain our protagonist’s driving motivations. But in the realm of faith and values? I stopped believing everything the tabloids said after I went on a school trip to the offices of my local paper. Others have grown disillusioned once they scrutinized the early history of their religion as historians, not as adherents. It’s harder to keep believing some things once you find out why you believe them. Naturally, I hold slavery to be an

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