I have a respect for you, but this is really lame gotcha. 1.) He's not saying it isn't or never was beneficial to our survival. 2.) We don't live in prehistoric times anymore. Evolution also made us desire lots of calories and that is still a problem today
If fear, hatred, & anger were net bad for our health under prehistoric conditions, then evolution would have eliminated them from human nature. Yet here they still are, after thousands of generations of selection.https://twitter.com/DalaiLama/status/1248543791872524289 …
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3.) He isn't really talking about survival, he's talking about it being bad for our spiritual health
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Health ≠ evolutionary fitness. This should be obvious to someone who spends so much time thinking about sexual selection.
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Health is basically survival, and while true that survival ≠ evolutionary fitness it is extremely likely that fear had a net plus effect for survival.
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“Bad for health” and “evolutionarily useful” are not mutually exclusive, or we wouldn’t enjoy potato chips.
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Right, an adaptation doesn’t have to be adaptive right now, but hadn’t you had feelings of fear you’d probably be dead now. Hatred and anger are still probably good indicators as to what is not good for our health.
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The one thing that can tie both of these tweets in accord is to include the term "chronic."
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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He's a spiritual leader, not a doctor. I'd say he's right if you think that physical health is not the only kind of health.
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God wanted you to enjoy tobacco Geoffrey
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