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.
上世纪80年代早期,人类学家希利•卡普兰(Hilly Kaplan)来到巴拉圭,研究一个名为Ache的猎人聚居部落。他发现,若用西方人的标准来衡量这个部落的一个道德准则,那么它看起来好得令人难以置信:Ache的猎人总是慷慨地与他人分享东西,他们会贡献出自己90%的肉食以及采集到的80%食物和水果。Ache部落的人认为,一个猎人如果食用了自己亲手杀死的猎物,会遭到诅咒。