Quote: (01-07-2015 02:59 PM)Mage Wrote:
Quote: (01-07-2015 02:53 PM)Plato Wrote:
Being good is not difficult.
Evolution (and not religion) is the reason that people act altruistically.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/altr...58399.html
If most people followed the instincts that evolution has give them. They will do good. It is only when they act in a way that they (instinctively) know to be wrong that problems occur.
This is not always so.
Example: People are evolved to store fat, because for tens of thousands of years of evolution assumed that food is scarce.
Excess food and minimal movement is a phenomenon of the last century. prior to that even kings rarely did have such luxuries as coach potatoes today.
Ironically people who have most trouble losing weight are considered the most adabted by our genes and evolution.
But now we must adobt in a reverse direction. People must go against their instincts and cheat their bodies into losing weight.
White knighting is also probably an evolutionary mechanism that is counterproductive today.
Good point. I never thought of white knighting in that way. I think maybe this and social conditioning are why it's often so hard for "blue pill" guys to reject the nonsense they're taught about women, dating, marriage, etc. as children.
"Men willingly believe what they wish." - Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book III, Ch. 18