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On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:11:43 GMT, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net>
wrote:
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> Okay, Lar, I guess I would like to hear why you think goodness is innate?
> I would think stuff like survival of self would be innate, but that
> goodness would be a learned trait. We are certainly born innocent but
> quite selfish to the exclusion of the rights of others. Only by learning
> do we come to respect others and their property, etc. This is one reason
> why I think most people in this world are not good, because they have not
> learned how to be good.
Actually, I've read a book called "The Origins of Virture" for my
Behavioural Ecology (Sociobiology) class a semester or two ago. The
author argued that the reason humans evolved reciprocity behaviour
paterns was that in the cases of hunting and gathering for early
humans, they had a better chance of increasing their survival rate by
working in groups than trying to find enough food for just themselves.
Kya
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