Summary Of We Are All Ninjas By Lourdes Borges

In We Are All Ninjas: Sympathy, Solidarity and Evolutionary Ethics the author, Maria de Lourdes Borges discusses empathy, solidarity and sympathy being wired to the human brain and if they are a natural behavior for humans or animals. “I will discuss one the thesis of evolutionary ethics, that is, that empathy and sympathy are innate. I ask whether these are natural/innate features of human beings and other animals, such as primates. I investigate whether there is a natural altruistic behavior and a natural tendency to solidarity.” (Borges) She claims that we already have enough first-hand information to admit that some parts of our beliefs come naturally.
The author, Maria starts by explaining how the two countries: Brazil and Turkey had two powerful protests happening in 2013 a month a part. She explains that Turley was fighting against changes on Taksin square, while a month later Brazil started out
“What do they could possibly have in common, besides the same gas bombs used by an unskilled police of both countries? They shared a very general identification as people fighting against what they thought were wrong in particular and general issues, but the agenda was highly different.” (Borges) Empathy and solidarity are the emotions that she used to describe the way things were going down between the two countries. Maria wanted to know if those emotions are hard wired in the human brain. She cites Jesse Prinze as a resource when answering the question about whether sympathy was innate or not. In her analysis, Prinz claimed that it was easy to show that humans help others with nothing expected in return: “In contrast, human beings frequently help others when there is no reciprocation. We send donation checks to distant charity organization, protest injustices that do not affect us directly, and support interventions in far-away lands.”