To: cosmicforce who wrote (46807 ) 1/26/2008 9:37:49 AM From: epicure Read Replies (2) | Respond to Well, yes and no. I think what countries do fits that bill- but people can often be categorized as either brave, or cowardly. I, of course, don't see those words as very value laden. Cowardly often means sensible and wanting to preserve one's life- which (imo) makes complete biological sense. Bravery often ends the life of your genes. Sometimes I wonder if we don't sometimes praise things that we want to see in others, but don't want to do ourselves- meaning that hypocrisy would be a terribly efficient biological strategy- which is maybe why we see so much of it? Perhaps this is a societal evolutionary strategy, if you think beyond the evolution of the individual, to put pressure on certain individuals, who lack a strong drive to protect their own lives, to protect the "group".might call foolhardy behavior, if it did not benefit us. (I don't say anyone does this consciously- goodness knows most of what humans do, they do unconsciously.)
