(August 15, 2019 at 10:06 am)Grandizer Wrote: Doesn't change the fact, though, that humans have learned to help each other out due mainly to the favorability of cooperation for continued survival. And this is good (helping people is a good thing after all). What's also good is that the species has thus a basic foundation upon which to further develop good.
OK, we evolved to do some things that you believe are good.
But that doesn't mean that the preferences evolution gave us are necessarily good. That would be the appeal to nature fallacy.
There is nothing in evolution, or any other science, which can prove that "helping each other out" is good. That is a preference, and one that we probably have (to a very limited extent) thanks to natural selection.
