You identify that in fact humans have literally evolved to be cooperative and socially helpful, but you decide this is just "machievallian" and a trick of some

You identify that in fact humans have literally evolved to be cooperative and socially helpful, but you decide this is just "machievallian" and a trick of some kind? Perhaps it just means that humans are in fact fundamentally and essentially cooperative and kind, because in fact natural selection has pressured us to evolve to be so? (This was Kropotkin's 19th century argument [1] ) The idea that if it's the result of evolution than it's necessarily somehow not "honest" is a weird moralistic narrative that puts the cart before the horse, having already decided that if humans are a product of evolution (whihc of course we are), then that has to mean we're selfish, so any discovery of anything to the contrary just definitionally has to be dishonest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...