Albert Nerenberg and Robert Wright obviously have their sides on the issues of empathy and morality. Nerenberg sides with the idea of humans being cooperative with the science behind mirror neurons acting as a source for empathy which drives a civilization. Wright suggests that the reason for humans being so competitive is that it was all because of natural selection and the way humans were roughly around the Stone Age. If the two where to sit down and debate about the topic their would be some areas where one would stand their ground. Nerenberg holds a firm belief based off of science that those who have empathy will cooperate with others while those who lack it will not care for others. With Nerenberg's point of view it leans toward the side of humans being cooperative. However Wright suggests that humans have always been competitive because of the way we group ourselves dating back to the time of the first humans. Cooperation as he suggests, is only to a certain degree as people have their own sense of morality which in some cases is such an unbreakable will that they will not change their beliefs. Wright uses the topic of religion as a solid base for this argument. His sides leans towards the fact that because of this we are competitive.