(August 13, 2010 at 2:58 am)solja247 Wrote: Evolutionarily speaking why should I care if a child was killed in Africa?
Probably already been answered by now, but I believe that evolutionarily speaking the way we treat other humans and the way we feel at their deaths is hard wired into our brains from a time when the continued survival of a group had a better chance the more members it had. While not to entirely relevant today due to the sheer size and geographical separation of the human population there was a time when working together and protecting one another was a pretty selfish act to the extent that you were helping others in order that they would help you survive.