Yuval Noah Harari points out, “belief in the unique worth and rights of human beings . . . has embarrassingly little in common with the scientific study of Homo sapiens.”19 In fact, if we look to evolution as our only origin story and try to squeeze our ethics from its scientific husk, we have (at best) the idea that one should sacrifice only for members of one’s genetic group. The idea of loving those whose origins lie in a different continent is dead in the primeval water. In fact, as atheist psychologist Steven Pinker observes, if virtue is equated with “sacrifices that benefit one’s own
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