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Avoiding guilt (if one feels it for being non-vegetarian) feels like it should count towards biological incentive; assuming the guilt felt is significant enough
by kranner 10y ago
Avoiding guilt (if one feels it for being non-vegetarian) feels like it should count towards biological incentive; assuming the guilt felt is significant enough to cause stress, etc.
- throwanem 10y agoThat's a pretty weak incentive. Even among people who actually choose to experience it, it's far too recent to have exerted any meaningful selection pressure on a species with generation intervals measured in decades - especially given the correlations between the kind of guilty vegetarianism you describe and Western affluence, and between Western affluence and reduced reproductive rate.
- kranner 10y agoI'm talking about personal impact on a single human being's biological well-being. GP framed their question as being for "a homo sapien".