What Makes Us Moral

My favorite part of the whole article was the scenario about the out-of-control train. It really made me think about what I would do. If I were put into that situation, what I'd try to do would be to tell the guy on the siding to flip the switch and quickly jump back or forward to safety; then all six people would be alive. I don't know what I'd do if I had to choose between the two situations presented in the article...save the five people on my side of the tracks or save the man on the other side. This is a very tough situation and I hope I'm never faced with it; my reaction would be one of the moment.
I also like the section about the apes in the article; there are actually things that we as humans can learn from them. The give-and-take method that they use really gives the group a thriving quality. We could use something like that in our society; instead of going against each other, we could work together and thrive. I also liked the part where de Waal says that animals have rules that everyone must follow and the community enforces that. We could really use that in our society today. Instead of allowing some people to break the rules, everyone should have to follow them, and the rules should be enforced. This article gives a lot of good information that us as humans could learn from animals.
This was a very interesting article and really made me think about what I'd do in some of the situations mentioned in the article. I actually enjoyed reading this article.