(March 10, 2015 at 2:14 pm)SteveII Wrote: So what "inspires us to live beyond selfish interests and so achieve social coherence...and compels us beyond self-interest, beyond ego, beyond family, nation, and race." Why don't we live only for self-interest like evolution taught us to do?
Here's a serious question: did you think about the world you live in at all before you wrote that post? I don't mean to be nasty, but come on: you live in a world in which social coherence is beneficial to your selfish interests! You don't have to grow your own food, be your own doctor, make your own clothes, you get to specialize and have your own career precisely because of social coherence. The idea that you can characterize society as nothing but some great sacrifice we're all making is completely baffling.
Also? We are evolved to be a social species. Community building is our prime survival trait; we were not "taught" by evolution to only value individual self interest. One wonders how much research into human evolution you actually did before deciding that.
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