You'd expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we'd be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren't true. They're useless. But that's not the way we work.

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

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