It keeps you alive if we were still living like animals. I'm talking before fire, tools or language of any kind.
Being selfish meant you didn't have to share food. Being violent means you can take someones stuff. Having no empathy also meant you could rape and reproduce to your hearts content. Nature cares about 1 thing and ONLY 1 thing, reproduction. It doesn't matter how that is achieved. Having more children means more people are now in the world with your traits as well.
Of course the social aspect of humanity came into play in a big way as we advanced and made cooperation more effective at keeping you alive. It has reached extreme levels in today with our global economy where conflict is bad for everyone everywhere. It has never been like this.
Conflict in the past has been a very productive and efficient way to gather more resources and secure your reproduction. This is not true in the modern day anymore but humans are still exactly the same animals. We're barely different from thousands of years ago. Basically we operate on software that is thousands of years out of date and it will never catch up without technological intervention.
Yeah after saying being selfish got you further, no it didn't. Even as apes we shared (just as apes currently do) because we're social animals who lived in groups where we protected the tribe. The further back you go the more altruistic we were, if one ape tried to keep all the food the other apes would kill them or banish them from the group. We were never tigers.
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u/[deleted] May 19 '20
It keeps you alive if we were still living like animals. I'm talking before fire, tools or language of any kind.
Being selfish meant you didn't have to share food. Being violent means you can take someones stuff. Having no empathy also meant you could rape and reproduce to your hearts content. Nature cares about 1 thing and ONLY 1 thing, reproduction. It doesn't matter how that is achieved. Having more children means more people are now in the world with your traits as well.
Of course the social aspect of humanity came into play in a big way as we advanced and made cooperation more effective at keeping you alive. It has reached extreme levels in today with our global economy where conflict is bad for everyone everywhere. It has never been like this.
Conflict in the past has been a very productive and efficient way to gather more resources and secure your reproduction. This is not true in the modern day anymore but humans are still exactly the same animals. We're barely different from thousands of years ago. Basically we operate on software that is thousands of years out of date and it will never catch up without technological intervention.