In the early 1980s, the anthropologist Hilly Kaplan visited Paraguay to study a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Ache. He found a moral code that, by western standards, seemed too good to be true: Ache hunters shared with open hands, giving away 90 per cent of their meat and 80 per cent of the grubs and fruit they gathered. The Ache believed that a hunter who ate his own kill would be cursed.
上世紀80年代早期,人類學家希利?卡普蘭(Hilly Kaplan)來到巴拉圭,研究一個名為Ache的獵人聚居部落。他發現,若用西方人的標準來衡量這個部落的一個道德準則,那么它看起來好得令人難以置信:Ache的獵人總是慷慨地與他人分享東西,他們會貢獻出自己90%的肉食以及采集到的80%食物和水果。Ache部落的人認為,一個獵人如果食用了自己親手殺死的獵物,會遭到詛咒。