And here I thought science should be descriptive rather than normative.
Psych results shouldn't be moralized & politicized compared to some ethical ideal that could never have evolved by any known set of selection pressure. It's just silly. HT @annaeverette16https://aeon.co/amp/ideas/the-bad-news-on-human-nature-in-10-findings-from-psychology?__twitter_impression=true …
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Reminds me of Pinker's quote about human nature: "But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another.”
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Stopped when I saw "brain areas associated with thinking about people." Seriously? What part of the brain is that? I reckon they mistook areas associated with recognising familiar or common traits with an individual and assumed that was the "caring centre."
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