Re: Challenges for Evolutionary Ethics

From: Reason (Landrew_at_iaf.net)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:34:45 +0000 (UTC)

"Michael Ragland" <ragland37@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:cjptn0$28fu$1@darwin.ediacara.org...
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>
> Reason:
> This oscillation between selfish and altruistic populations continues
> until another permutation of traits creates a balance which allows the
> two purposes to co-exist without diminishing each other.
>
> Response:
> I don't think such a permutation of traits has occured. Do you?

I believe such oscillations eventually end. Either by the extinction of the
species, or when another trait appears that breaks the cycle. Perhaps in our
own species, the cycle is partly broken by the predisposition for ethical
behavior in most of us. I believe our desire to punish anti-social behavior
and remove the offenders from society, comes from a partly genetic and not
entirely cultural origin.

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