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seeing as we evolved from animals that don't appear to experience guilt about eating other animals, I find it implausible that feeling guilt is the original sta
by malandrew 7y ago
seeing as we evolved from animals that don't appear to experience guilt about eating other animals, I find it implausible that feeling guilt is the original state and not a pro-social trait that evolved much much later as we started forming societies.
- chillacy 7y agoThat’s correct, guilt would be something that evolves with social structure, but social structure arose pre-hunter-gatherer. The jump to agriculture took hundreds of thousands of years after the first hominids (pre sapiens).