Humans need legends to bear responsibility for un-chosen deeds

Evidence

According to the target article, humans possess inordinately stable intuitions about the existence of a tacit contract that commits them to behave morally – for example, to help those in need and desire punishment for those in guilt. Paradoxically, people also know that there exists (within the sphere and limits of their biofunctional cognition) no moral contract that they have signed or to which they have agreed by choice or otherwise. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 460 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: People feel moral obligations they never actually agreed to. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 460; Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities

Related

• People feel moral obligations they never actually agreed to. (similarity 0.87)
• Moral obligations require overriding force that natural selection doesn’t explain (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• People feel moral obligations they never actually agreed to. #expands (0.85) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 460
• Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities #corroborates (0.78)