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Can apes make moral decisions

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

I'm not sure, however I have read a study (I cannot remember the name (sorry this isn't very helpful)) which demonstrated that chimpanzees understood the concept of fairness. In the test a chimp was asked to pick between two bowls of sweets of unequal size. Whichever bowl they chose was given to a different chimp, which would send the chooser into what appears to be a fit of rage, often even followed by sulking. This seems to point towards chimps having a sense of fairness which could be extrapolated to some kind of primitive morality.

(Needless to say the chimps soon figured out which bowl to choose.)

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