It isn’t reason or religion that makes us a successful species, or the literature we read in school, or the patriotic discipline and dedication with which we defend our nation’s interests. Instead, it is the primitive impulses we follow, which have been with us from our earliest incarnations. Whatever we may have become, Homo sapiens were once nothing more than lonely hunters with no sense of right or wrong but only a feeling inside our marrow that somehow we must carry on. In that simple equation lies our sole claim to nobility and virtue. The survival of our species is the only moral choice
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