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It is entirely possible that evolutionary conferred advantages really do 'suck' in other senses or in certain social situations, which tend to go beyond evoluti
by claudiawerner 7y ago
It is entirely possible that evolutionary conferred advantages really do 'suck' in other senses or in certain social situations, which tend to go beyond evolutionary fitness. Indeed a great many things have evolved that would be abhorrent to carry out in civil society; many intuitions (moral and otherwise) we have (even those spread across several cultures) seem correct but are not scientifically grounded. The is-ought problem shows itself again here, and as far as modern conceptions of justice and moral psychology go, social Darwinism has lost a lot of ground in the last fifty years.