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What less than desirable traits promote survival?
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Talking specifically about humans, what traits have survived despite being frowned upon? I'm convinced my ancestors found every excuse to get out of battle. They had the sniffles and were convinced it was plague or something. They survived. They just didn't fight for it.
Promiscuity seems like an obvious one. That seems like an enduring trait for any species.  RE: What less than desirable traits promote survival?
June 21, 2019 at 3:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2019 at 3:17 pm by Chad32.)
Yes, cowardice increases your survival by a lot, as long as your community doesn't shun you for it. When danger strikes, it's smart to get as far away as possible, but the warrior's mindset has become so ingrained in culture that you're accused of being less of a man if you don't charge in, or at least try to act intimidating. Also for women, not wanting to bear children. It's a burden on your personal survival to get knocked up, especially if it happens over and over, but we have a culture where if a woman isn't having children, then what good is she?
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html  RE: What less than desirable traits promote survival?
June 21, 2019 at 3:27 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2019 at 3:30 pm by Angrboda.)
Selfishness.
Lying. ![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg)
That only goes so far, though. Or at least it should. I guess in the right circles, it doesn't matter.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html 
NOTHING! Humans are the kindest, caringest, awesomest, mostest wonderfulest, special creature in the whole entire everything!
Knowing that you don't leave your poop where god walks.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
Mine is that I'm simply too humble. I'm probable more humble than it is humanly possible to be.
 (June 21, 2019 at 3:06 pm)Athena Wrote: Talking specifically about humans, what traits have survived despite being frowned upon? I'm convinced my ancestors found every excuse to get out of battle. They had the sniffles and were convinced it was plague or something. They survived. They just didn't fight for it. Stealing. Pretty much all animals, particularly those outside social groups, have no compunction in stealing food from others. I'm pretty sure humans who stole food had a higher survival rate than those they stole from. Seems to me that stealing wasn't admonished (I could be wrong) up until social groups, like tribes formed, and even then it was only within your own tribe that stealing was frowned upon, stealing from other tribes probably was just seen as conquest.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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