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guillaumeb

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2. Interersting article, but....
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:25 AM
Dec 2016

this part troubles me:

Evolution only cares about survival and offspring. An immoral and cruel family with many children is advantageous to a moral and loving family with few children in the survival of the fittest.


Any family that does not have certain rules will not survive. What is described here, the immoral and cruel family, sounds to me like early hominid Libertarians. Humans are social creatures and cannot survive without a support structure. The family is the microcosm and society is the macrocosm of support structures.

Morality, like ideas of good or evil, is a societal construct. What is considered moral, or good, or evil, can vary from society to society.

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Polar opposites safeinOhio Dec 2016 #1
Interersting article, but.... guillaumeb Dec 2016 #2
Humans nil desperandum Dec 2016 #3
Agreed. Greed and a lust for power are motivators for a tiny fraction of humans. eom guillaumeb Dec 2016 #4
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