> Do you believe in true altruism? If so, how do you think it arose in the human population? I was going to constuct an argument of how altruism propels societ

> Do you believe in true altruism? If so, how do you think it arose in the human population? I was going to constuct an argument of how altruism propels societies forward, even benefiting the "weakened" altruistic individuals among it. But the more important point is that evolution not always finding a global maximum. Some traits that are beneficial, such as empathy, might have weird side effects that nature didn't yet bother to eliminate.