RE: Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.
June 17, 2023 at 1:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2023 at 1:37 am by Anomalocaris.)
There is no reason whysoever evolution should make us peaceful per se, because we clearly find ourselves in many situations where use of violence can improve the survival and reproductive prospects. This is made more true for homo sapiens than might be for the likes of bonobos because our cognitive powers gave us the ability to adapt ourself and our social structures to the demands of a much wider range of environments, niches and modes of social organization. These in turn allow many more opportunities for situations to arise that can be profitably dealt with by violence ccur.
What evolution would tend to do is to calibrate our innate impulse to violence so as to allow our capacity for calculation to keep the urge to violence in check in those situation where reflexive violence would be self defeating.
So, evolution has not made us less violent, It has made us more inclined to use experience, learning, and broad cognition power to more optimally calibrate the use of violence to increase the chance that it’s use would be profitable rather than self-defeating.
What evolution would tend to do is to calibrate our innate impulse to violence so as to allow our capacity for calculation to keep the urge to violence in check in those situation where reflexive violence would be self defeating.
So, evolution has not made us less violent, It has made us more inclined to use experience, learning, and broad cognition power to more optimally calibrate the use of violence to increase the chance that it’s use would be profitable rather than self-defeating.
