#morality

When Occupy Wall Street and similar protests played out over the past year, the phenomenon looked familiar to Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal: He's seen similar moral outrage over economic inequity expressed by monkeys and chimps. And he thinks we could learn a lesson or two from our fellow primates.

"pro-choicers tend to think that the abortion criminalization movement is motivated by a desire - perhaps an unconscious desire - to punish women for having sex."

"Habit and familiarity have a great deal (though not everything) to do with what people find disgusting but very little to do with ethics. ... Disgust is good clean fun and provides endless amusement for children, but it's worthless as a moral compass."

"I live in rural Ohio and I have been denied EC. "

"They discriminate, exclude and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot." Amen.