This is quite shortsighted of you to say. If your group is less likely to survive, you as a part of it are also less likely to survive and vice versa. Genetics

This is quite shortsighted of you to say. If your group is less likely to survive, you as a part of it are also less likely to survive and vice versa. Genetics are not isolated from you, or your group, or your environment, they’re not isolated from anything. Evolution is a function of the totality of the system in which you exist. And to prove my point, genetics clearly work on the level of an organism, which is nothing but a group of cells holding the genes you’re talking about. Why are genetics working on the level of the organism, a group of cells, not just on the level of the cells? It makes no sense to have it both ways and claim the evolution of genes goes beyond cells but stops at the surface of your skin. Why did we evolve empathy, cooperation, language? Because we survive better as a group when we can synchronize together in advanced ways. You think none of this requires genetic alteration to exist? Why not teach your cat to talk then?