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Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is the most fitting way of framing this conundrum. Spending time and energy raising one's children isn't selfish of the parent a
by nostromo 9y ago
Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is the most fitting way of framing this conundrum.
Spending time and energy raising one's children isn't selfish of the parent as an individual. But it's selfish from the view of their genes.
- majewsky 9y agoYeah, but if the definition of "selfish" is so broad that it includes basically all of human behavior, it's not useful anymore.