Radiolab's show on Morality

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Where does our sense of right and wrong come from?
We watch chimps at a primate research center sharing blackberries, observe 3-year-olds fighting over toys, and tour Eastern State Penitentiary -- the country's first penitentiary. Plus, a story of land grabbing, indentured servitude, and slumlording in the fourth grade.
Podcast http://www.radiolab.org/story/91508-morality/
 
In "Night" by Elie Weisel, he talks about how, after going without food for so long, fathers and sons would fight (or even kill? - don't remember) each other to get food. In other words, our morality breaks down with too much scarcity.
 
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