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> our Darwinian might makes right mentality Natural Selection is, roughly speaking, about changes to genes that help propagate those changes. There’s no normat
by jamesrcole 7y ago
> our Darwinian might makes right mentality
Natural Selection is, roughly speaking, about changes to genes that help propagate those changes. There’s no normative element to it.
- yters 7y agoNormativeness is attached to equivalence between fittest and ontologically best. At any rate, we think we're better than cockroaches, so whatever makes humans better than cockroaches makes one individual better than another individual. There doesn't have to be anything objective about this moral view. It is the logic of the subjective preferences of sentient evolved creatures.
- jamesrcole 7y agoThis has nothing to do with Natural Selection itself. It's incorrect to say this is "Darwinian"
- yters 7y agoNatural selection supposedly gave us the traits that make us think we're better than cockroaches.