Tag: evolution
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Absolutely careless and selfish people can make modern society, capitalism and welfare system
Homo sapiens programmed by selfish genes had lived in the African savanna in small family groups (in broader tribes) and tried to gain scarce resources while absolutely careless if another clan (or not to mention a foreign clan) member dies. Careless about the well-being of other people, the animalistic morality we live by these days…
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State atheism as a preferable model? The 21st century is the century of religion!
Welcome to the 21st century! The age of science, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, sustainability, space exploration, social media – and now guess what – yes, religion. Christianity: Approximately 2.3 billion adherentsIslam: Approximately 1.9 billion adherents (while the world’s population is projected to grow 32% in the coming decades, the number of Muslims is expected to…
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Do your friends believe in the Poltergeists? 10 reasons why they shouldn’t
1. We are products of evolution (replicating animals) 2. There is no higher power or God 3. There is no reason why other non-animal (including humans as animals) creatures would exist (who would have created them or how would they have come into existence?) 4. We are evolutionarily programmed to fear 5. We possess the…
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Wikipedia – Instead of promoting rationality, they tell you how many people died somewhere
Who would think that Wikipedia which should promote scientific discourse, free inquiry, and rationality is living in obscurantism? People are evolutionary programmed that if you kill a child that is a problem (and, of course, it should be). And since the means of contraception didn’t exist nearly all the time people were in existence, when…
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Elon Musk, evolutionary psychology and why we are obsessed with famous people?
As I have found this topic untouched by evolutionary psychology (please correct me if I am wrong), I will offer my amateurish view. People love to stock and read hundreds of books about famous people. They want to be just like them, want to be close to them and gain their attention. The hunger-gathering groups…
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Who brought more people alive? Capitalists or communists?
It isn’t actually a joke. In fact, I am neither a communist nor a socialist. But the Czechoslovakian regime had higher natality than nowadays Czech Republic regime. My favorable regime is definitely non-communistic. There are some kinds of academic, press, and civic freedoms. You can read Karl Popper, Bertrand Rusell, and so on, the thing…
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You fail in business and you will feel it. Doctors can basically kill people without punishment
When you fail in a private sphere (especially in business) you will feel the dire consequences immediately. The commercial sphere is tough. But excluding all the wars the doctors kill more people than homicide do. An earlier study conducted in 2009 found that an estimated 200,000 people die from medical malpractice annually in the US.…
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The silent Holocaust – factory farming and torture
Of course, the animals have never been born if we weren’t bred them. But what kind of life do they have? Only suffering and suffering. I have seen thousands of videos of animals having been tortured. The issue is not only sporadic but it is overwhelmingly systematic. Who can work in the factory farming industry?…
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People do things because of money or direct orders
Humans don’t do things basically because of morality but because of gaining scarce resources or being in a submissive relationship. So you have cruel correction officers, the Holocaust, genocides, armies ready to do whatever they are ordered to do. Evolution equipped us with selfishness, not caring (in terms of doing direct intervention) whether a fellow…