(August 21, 2014 at 7:42 am)Goosebump Wrote: That's a benefit or dis-benefit on a very narrow level. However even if you were in such a narrow community but voted for a senator. If you voted your morality would that not be a benefit if it was reflected largely in the population?I think it's the same question: if I reflect the standards of my community, then I am likely to see the benefits of that association. If I vote for a particular candidate then the likelihood that he will succeed is dependent on whether a majority of my fellow voters share my support of him.
If I hold a minority view in my community, then the candidate that I support will probably lose the election. Being a minority would not benefit me. But I would still vote based on my support (or belief, if you will). I don't think that there is a reasonable or practical alternative.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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