I am not talking about biological evolution, I'm talking about intellectual evolution. I believe that our brains are plenty smart to do amazing things if they are given enough information. Look at what Einstein understood.
We are just now really starting our intellectual evolution. We're at the very beginning. I saw this coming in the 60s and I knew that there would be problems during the transition. The reason being that as a social animal tied to the norms and mores of society it does provide an inner compass of what is right and wrong.
As we stretch out into the existential world, there is no real internal compass. We have to develop an internal compass using our mind. And we do a pretty good job of it. The thoughtful existentialists, like yourself, self govern and do a better job of it than most religious people. The reason being, that you can understand the difference better than they can, in my opinion.
But you have two populations of existential outgrowth. Informed and uninformed. The uninformed, are the predators that Hillary Clinton was talking about. Kids who are raised without any ethical guidance and no social guidance to draw from, are by the very process raised to be sociopaths, amoral, to the degree that learned behavior overrides, good biological behavior. Genetic empathy.
We are both killers and lovers. As enlightened existentialists we can override the killer instincts.
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