worth reading: Roger Kimbell's essay on James Q Wilson's book The Moral Sense.
he invented the "broken windows" theory, that if a neighborhood was left untidy and full of broken windows and garbage, that those living there would "get the message" that anything goes.
His basic argument is based on Darwinism, that there is a genetic moral sense inborn in us that allows us to live in communities.
Here is Wilson speaking at Pepperdine University on "the genetic basis of political views":
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