These statements (#MaC) form part of the Morality as Cooperation Quiz What is morality? Where does it come from, and how does it work? And how and why do moral values vary, between individuals, and across cultures? The theory of ‘morality as cooperation’ (MAC) argues that morality is best understood as a collection of biological and cultural solutions to the problems of cooperation recurrent in human social life. MAC draws on evolutionary game theory to argue that, because there are many types of cooperation, there will be many types of morality. These include: family values, group loyalty, reciprocity, heroism, deference, fairness and property rights. Previous research suggests that these seven types of morality are evolutionarily-ancient, psychologically-distinct, and cross-culturally universal. Take the Quiz to work out what your particular mix looks like.

**Helping those in your community makes sense, whether you live in a commune or the world at large.** I think we will always have to help each other. Biologically, [it's in us](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0389-1), and, to some extent, [made us](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10818-016-9213-z)---we were forged from survival as a result of extended cooperation. [Socially](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781880/) and in what I might refer to as [spiritually](https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/spirituality-and-community-building/overview-some-spiritual-assets/main), it's also in us: Deep down, beyond any social or biological limits, it seems like there is a drive to help others outside our immediate senses of self, perhaps for that very reason---to extend our sense of self, possibly as a defense against fear of mortality. But, interestingly, I think there is a strong contingent of people who want to help their communities for nothing other than just to help. That it's interacting with something larger than oneself for the sole sake of being part of that larger thing doesn't feel totally right to me; I think there is a drive within each of us to help our communities for reasons we can't explain that go beyond biological, social, or personal pressures. I think that there might be some sort of inexplicable feeling we share that enables us to want to create community in an outwardly harsh and uncaring cosmos.