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nossa espécie tem problemas com a violência.

When a population reaches carrying capacity, though, and zero-sum dynamics are once again in play, the incentives of high-ranking men tend to shift in the direction of polygyny. Male-male competition becomes a driving force, as men with wealth and power seek to dominate the reproductive output of multiple women.

I do believe that you can understand most of moral psychology by viewing it as a form of enlightened self-interest, and if it’s self-interest, then it’s easily explained by Darwinian natural selection working at the level of the individual. Genes are selfish,3 selfish genes create people with various mental modules, and some of these mental modules

That kind of game-theory thinking only works if you treat the people around you as resources and dead weight. If you assume the natural unit of survival is one individual, and not the group.

L’idée d’une affinité particulière des humains pour les contacts et la communication n’est pas nouvelle. « L’homme est par nature un animal social », disait Aristote113. Mais, étonnamment, on n’a découvert que récemment dans la longue histoire des hommes à quel point cette intuition philosophique était biologiquement exacte.

Results showed that subjects’ brains responded in the same way when the “nice” player received a shock as when they themselves were shocked. The subjects used their mirror neurons, empathized, and felt the other’s pain. But when the selfish player got a shock, people showed less empathy, and some even showed neural evidence of pleasure.39 In other

Wie ons van betekenis voorzien, zijn andere mensen. Mensen geven wel om elkaar. Mensen zijn geïnteresseerd in elkaar en mensen zorgen voor elkaar. Daarom zetten wij tijdens de coronacrisis alles op alles om elkaar een wrede dood te besparen. Volgens de Australische filosoof Peter Singer (1946) zijn we opgenomen in expanding circles of empathy en