The premodern approach is based in faith. The postmodern approach is based on a cynical rejection of all that came before. The modern approach, the one most deeply and accurately informed by an evolutionary world view, is based on skepticism.https://www.patreon.com/posts/22296341
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If I am wrong in thinking that all cooperation is evolved behavior carried out as a means of inter-group competition, then I would like to know. Many people speak of evolved cooperativeness as proof that evolution is benevolent, or at least not totally vicious. Who's right?
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Evolution is not benevolent—nor is it malevolent. It just is. Resources (water, food, nest sites, mates, cash…) are limited and limiting, therefore an individual’s success often comes at the cost of someone else not getting what you are using to survive. This is true.
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But collaboration—between organelles to make eukaryotes, between microorganisms and multicellular organisms to make us who we are (e.g. the microbiome), between social groups of dolphins, wolves, humans—is just as evolutionary.
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But isn't absolutely EVERYTHING about humans, & all living beings, evolutionary in nature, root, & origin? So, of course cooperation is evolutionary. The human love of music is evolutionary, but that doesn't mean that music is what has driven & drives human evolution.
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What's the evolutionary purpose of cooperation? The purpose of cooperation is ALWAYS to help Group/Tribe A to DEFEAT Groups B & C in the struggle to control scarce resources needed for survival. Cooperation in the universal sense of Progressive morality doesn't exist in biology.
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With cooperation, Group A happens to be humanity and Group B happens to be death. You are taking descriptive evolutionary tendencies and trying to make them into normative ethical theories. No wonder you’re encountering a problem.
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