CUCUMBER VS GRAPES

The Atheist Dilemma I am not convinced that morality needs to get its weight from above, though. Can’t it come from within? This would certainly work for compassion, but perhaps also for our sense of fairness. A few years ago, we demonstrated that primates will happily perform a task for cucumber slices until they see others getting grapes, which taste so much better. The cucumber eaters become agitated, throw down their veggies, and go on strike. A perfectly fine food has become unpalatable as a result of seeing a companion get something better. We labeled it inequity aversion, a topic since investigated in other animals,