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Evolution Built Us To Punish Cheaters. Without That Punishment Instinct, We Would Never Have Been Able To Live In Small Groups, And Would Never Have Realized All The Significant Benefits That Small-group Living Conferred, Including Mutual Defense, Cooperative Hunting, Property, Divisions Of Labor And Economies Of Scale. In Fact, To A Large Extent Our Notions Of Right And Wrong, Of Empathy And Compassion, Of Fairness And Justice, All Come From The Tensions Of Group Living, And Thus Indirectly Owe Their Very Existence To Punishment. It May Sound Strange That One Key To Civilization Is Our Willingness To Punish Each Other, But Every Parent Knows It's True. Every Parent Also Feels The Irresistible Pull Not To Punish Too Much, And In Fact Maybe Not To Punish At All - To Forgive - And This, Too, Is A Remnant Of Evolution. Our Punishment Instinct Is Not So Much A Sword Ready To Fall As It Is A Finely Tuned Balance, Sometimes Susceptible To The Gentlest Of Breezes-- The Most Original Of Original Sins. The Social Problem : Cheat Or Cooperate? ; Our Natures Lost And Rediscovered ; Culture : Our Small Groups Become Large ; The Culture And Evolution Of Law ; The Problem Of Property ; The Promi

Author

Hoffman, Morris B., 1952-

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139910668

Subjects

Anthropology, Social_sciences

Rating

3.59 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14