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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (24546)	5/17/2009 4:51:52 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

>>Why deny your selfish nature and be something you're not. We're hardwired to be selfish and egotistical. Evolution made you a certain way and now you're trying to change it.<< First: >>Why deny your selfish nature and be something you're not. << That question should be clear. We evolved to protect the tribe from wild beasts and other tribes. Male primates will sacrifice their lives knowingly to protect the tribe from say leapords. But today, we live in civilized societies where that sort of agression is best saved for football. So we have to try and temper our behavior, as hard as that is to do. It is also the reason I would like to see many more women in govenrment. They are not as instinctually aggressive as males. Secondly: >>Evolution made you a certain way and now you're trying to change it.<< Well of course. In the nuclear age instinctual aggression will only get us all killed. In psychology they have terms for those who try to change and those who do not. They are called them ego orieneted and task oriented. The brain is wired for pattern recognition not logic and so in the end our evolution may end up being our demise as it is based on everything killing evreything else to survive. But some of us make an effort to rise above our animal instincts. We must at least make an effort to protect the world for the future generations.