Originally posted by Malice
Of course. It's not as if they're sentient or there's a conscious force behind the evolutionary process. It's just a term used.
I didn't say that you said that genes are selfish in a human sense. But there is no such thing as "selfish genes". That's not a thing.
What I meant was that the behaviors that genes inevitably produce are incompatible with utilitarian values and that there is no feasible method of altering this, necessitating total annihilation.
Originally posted by Malice
What I meant was that the behaviors that genes inevitably produce are incompatible with utilitarian values and that there is no feasible method of altering this, necessitating total annihilation.
But the very idea of genetic selfishness is a meta-concept that emerges not from the nature of genes but the logical relationships between their propagative tendencies (which are not inherent to them, they're just what's left) and their vectors of propagation. The is no reason to believe the relationships stay the same when their vector of propagation changes in nature.
Yes, utilitarianism doesn't work for dogs and platypi and shit. But we're not dogs and platypi and shit. We have the benefit of higher order reasoning.
I tend to agree with CF's thinking. Even if we do have "selfish" genes, there is no reason to think we don't function more cooperatively in society under a different set of normative moral values.
I just realized that walking into Auto Zone/the automotive section in Walmart gives me the same sense of wonder and excitement walking into Toys-R-Us gave me as a child.
Originally posted by RestStop
I just realized that walking into Auto Zone/the automotive section in Walmart gives me the same sense of wonder and excitement walking into Toys-R-Us gave me as a child.
#Just29YearOldThings
Enjoy this time because @ 30 ya gotta go to porn shops and gun stores to get that same feelin. Porn shots get old can't even count how many times I've seen the 3 ft double sided dildo hanging on the wall shaking its head back and fourth yelling NO to me. Damn my life is good.
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