Difficult Dialogues: The Impossible Will Take a Little While

“Empires may be born by force,” writes former UUA President Bill Schulz, “but they are not long sustained by it. They are sustained by a capacity to peddle a better idea and to practice what you preach, to resolve conflicts equitably.”  Biology does not condemn humanity to adversarial combat.  How might we shift the emphasis from “survival of the fittest” to altruism and cooperation?