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A second force towards kindness is cooperation.
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Even if animals are unrelated, they are nice to one another.
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Animals will give warning cries, they will groom one another,
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they will exchange food. And the reason for this is that animals have evolved,
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our minds have evolved, to enter into sort of cooperative situations with other
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people and to surmount prisoner's dilemmas, to surmount deception and cheating.
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This gives rise to some emotion including emotions
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that could be viewed as moral emotions, like guilt and anger, and again,
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grounds altruistic behavior in an evolutionary perspective.
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This is all by means of review but the question you can now ask is,
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"Fine. That's why moral feelings might evolve, but what do we know as
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psychologists about the emergence in nature of moral feelings in individuals?