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> A person’s virtue depends on their excellence as a human being, how well one performs the function for which humans were designed. humans weren't designed, t
by exit 6y ago
> A person’s virtue depends on their excellence as a human being, how well one performs the function for which humans were designed.
humans weren't designed, they were selected for through a happenstantial process. random mutation is critical to this process, and so any one of us can be deeply at odds with whatever the majority are geared towards.
- ourmandave 6y agoThat's why you have to design your environment instead. For example, this family-size package of Double Stuf Oreos was designed to be eaten, so I will stoically consume every last one of them.
- clairity 6y ago> “humans weren't designed, they were selected for...” unless i’m mistaking your intent, “evolved” might be the better phrasing if you’re objecting to the agency implied by “designed”, as “selected for” also implies similar (super-)agency.
- exit 6y agoyou're right that "selected for" also implies agency. if i wrote my comment a second time i'd replace that with "came about through". my main intention though is to point out that being the product of an evolutionary process we can't find definitive purpose in our origins.