Evolution suggests our natural instinct is to be kind

 Joe Humphreys wrote an interesting piece in The Irish Times on Thursday. The title was ‘If people are naturally kind, why is there so much cruelty?

He extensively quotes from Dubliner Éamonn Toland’s book ‘The Pursuit of Kindness’.

Toland agrees with Dutch historian Rutger Bergman whose thesis is that humans were by default co-operative and friendly until nomadic hunter-gatherers settled down, inventing among other things private property.