Your idea of "genetic interest" is not an implication of evolutionary theory, because you didn't evolve to act in your "genetic interest".
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You evolved to reproduce, not to act for the good of your genes (whatever that means). Reproduction is the basis of selection.
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If you think about the genes you share with others, you share most of your genome with all vertebrates.
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I think you share about 25% of your genes with a sea cucumber. Would you kill your child to save 5 sea cucumbers? No.
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Suppose you had children with a Chinese woman, so that you shared more genes with a random white person than your own child.
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Do you think you would kill your child to save a random white person? No, of course not. Because you were selected to reproduce.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @RiversofBlood68
That is an interesting example that does happen. A person's multiracial kids might be less similar to someone than random white kids, but
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people obviously do favor their own kids, even the multiracial ones.
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Replying to @RiversofBlood68 @PoisonAero
Probably, but I don't specifically knkw
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*know
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