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There are at least two plausible reasons for following moral norms when this is disadvantageous. One may stem from a fear that a failure to do so will be punished. The other may lie in a belief that acceptance of the costs is morally required. It is difficult to see why a reasoning individual, in the absence of fear of punishment or of even worse results, would follow a disadvantageous norm unless a preference for morality over advantage has a basis in that individual’s nature in at least this case.
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© 2014 Morton A. Kaplan and Inanna Hamati-Ataya
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Kaplan, M.A., Hamati-Ataya, I. (2014). Evolving Human Nature and Multi-stable Justice. In: Transcending Postmodernism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137358578_4
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