Proving What We Already "Know"

[The Grand Nudger]

Here's one to ponder, though-- feelings of distrust exist due to their evolutionary value.  Being an open-hearted unconditional lover of all mankind is fine and well, but it doesn't help your genetic fitness when your offspring is rotting face-down in a secluded swamp with a load of jizz up its ass.

/end disconnected random rant

One of the many...many reasons neither I nor objectivism consider a thing moral or immoral based on it's utility to me or whether I feel a certain way as a product of my biological origin.  I understand that bad things can be as useful as..and sometimes even more useful than, good things.  That I can feel great about doing a bad thing, or fail to feel poorly about doing a bad thing, or feel downright shitty doing a good thing.  Sometimes, good things do nothing to enhance my genetic fitness, and there's at least some category of good that I was repeatedly willing to die in pursuit of before I'd reproduced, for and against unrelated populations.

Being an open hearted lover of all mankind never entered into it, though I've met people who do seem that way, and I do like to be around them, lol.