A fascinating interview with Professor Frans de Waal, a Dutch primatologist and ethologist and author of the book, Age of Empathy. de Waal makes a strong research-based case that  cooperation, altruism, and  a sense of fairness are much more powerful and common in driving our moral judgements than mere self-interest.  This apparently holds true in … Continue reading Foundations of Micro Cracking: Altruism as Instinct?