"Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature."

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Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just waiting to be discovered by Platonic reasoners? Or do people feel revulsion and sympathy when they read accounts of torture, and then invent a story about universal rights to help justify their feelings?

— Jonathan Haidt