OT Re: [LINK] the myth of government censorship

[hartr at interweft.com.au]

On  4 Apr, Antony Barry wrote:

> Robert Wright. Moral animal:Why we are the way we are: the new science 
> of evolutionary psychology. New YorK, Vintage, 1994
> 
> Matt Ridley. The origions of virtue:human instincts and the evolution 
> of cooperation. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1996

and also more recently (and tying together many of these strands into a
workable model of the evolution of the human brain and its many
abilities that have only marginal 'survival value')

The Mating Mind, Geoffrey Miller, Vintage 2001, ISBN 0-099-28824-9

[Note - this is a book about evolution and it tries to stay clear of the
'moral/ethical' debate - as Miller puts it, genes have no morals.]

Returning to Bernard's original 'this holds society together', what we
are talking about is the unspoken social contract, only some (the
minority) of which is encapsulated in the laws we make.

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