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Very nice!

There are some omissions people get lots of training about at a young age, like not saying thank you, and not sharing, and I think those things as a result get quasi-moralized.

But I like this idea - deontology is basically what happens when you learn like a simple behaviorist predicts, just by reinforcing actions, but it takes some more sophistication to associate good and bad with the outcomes.

Where do you see Tomasello’s work fitting in here, where he argues that people objectivize norms about how people around here do things?

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