In the long run, the most successful ideologies are going to be those that are best aligned with evolution. Unfortunately, evolution tends to be very unpleasant for its participants. At some point, we may have to choose between favoring ethics or life.
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Replying to @Plinz
Also ethics is a wide field, and I don't see a need to choose between ethics and life; ethics is about right and wrong, and what you said is we might be forced to do the wrong thing according to some ethics. Ethics that doesn't properly weigh the fundamental value life is flawed
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Replying to @pavel23
What is the "proper weight" of the value of life? For instance, I value my fundamental integrity higher than my life. Do I have flawed ethics? What about anti-natalism?
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Replying to @Plinz
It is not just about own children though; even when helping strangers to survive you help a lot of the same genes you carry to surive, and with members of your ethnic group you share more genes, and with members of your family even more.
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Interestingly, we might be the first primate species to identify with an abstract superorganism (traditionally called God) and even sacrifice our children to it. This maximizes fitness under multilevel selection.
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