RE: Morality
June 13, 2013 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: June 13, 2013 at 9:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 13, 2013 at 3:09 am)crud Wrote: "ancient Roman society regarded empathy as a sign of a character flaw."Being "too much" of anything is easy to paint as a hindrance to survival, it's true. "Too fast"? That means you're the guy out front, always the first target. "Too slow" back of the bus, easy pickins. Empathy combined with reciprocity in a group small enough to maintain the hold of both is a clear advantage- but it's also something that can be gamed. So, depending on the scenario, and your capacity, empathy -could- be a character flaw, sure. A flaw in the absolute? Good luck with that.
Yeah, that's what I've been saying, it seems to hinder survival of the individual not help it, I find it strange that we would evolve with negative traits.("negative" in the eyes of "survival of the fittest")
"The fittest" social creature is the one with the tightest bonds - if we're selecting on that single behavior. One social animal becomes equivalent to a dozen when each operates as part of the whole. Whatever tool helps to facilitate that is going to offer an advantage.
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