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Politics : Evolution
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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (916)9/21/1999 12:32:00 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) of 69300
 
Evolution, survival of the fittest; look out for No 1.
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Because it is absolutely irrational to " die for your brother ".
It is philosophically unacceptable.

This is a complete misunderstanding of Natural Selection. Any characteristic which promotes survival will be selected for. If some creature evolves to have offspring which sometimes sacrifice themselves so that others may survive, well the characteristic will promote the survival of more offspring. Sometimes other creatures can get a free ride. A cat and a dog may become buddies not because they share offspring, but because they share the same trait of being protective of the other little critters they were raised with. The trait aids both cat creatures and dog creatures separately, but does not harm them if they apply the trait to creatures only distantly related.

This is why we have seen the pathetic failure ...
It's a stretch to try to blame Darwin for policies put into place by others of the Judeo/Christain persuasion. How many polititians can you name that are either other religions or athiest? How much of the current run of troubles is just a sign of a much larger population with more good people as well as bad people. When was the golden era when all was love & peace (1968 maybe?).

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