Our biology itself has dictated to self-conscious human beings a survival mentality that is our highest value. That desire for survival inevitably means that we are self-centered. We do not respond well to people who are different—those who look different, speak a different language or worship a different God—because we have judged them as a threat to our survival. So to be human is to be prejudiced, tribal and sectarian. Self-centeredness is rooted, not in our morality, as we once thought, but in our biology. It is a given, not a consequence! That is the universal human experience that our
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