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RE: The Simple Reason Fairness Is Bullshit
The law of nature is simple. The strongest survive. But humans have empathy as well. In the modern society most of us have the basic things to survive. So we can practice empathy more :)
We are empathetic only when we can afford it. Thus, even empathy is just a commodity ready to be traded.
Just something that crossed my mind: There is some evidence from Evolutionary Game Theory that at least altruism can evolve naturally within a group, even when that altruism doesn't benefit, or even is detrimental to, the individual having it. This altruism may even extend outside of the group as long as it is in some way beneficial to the survival of the individuals gene pool, but not necessarily the individual himself.
This greatly baffled thinkers on evolution who took the individual as the centre of their theories.
Well i guess this will be the "sacrifice" moment. And like most of the things it is debatable. Is the individual more important or the group? This days probably the individual. But back in our wild life, if there was no group the individual will hardly survive, have offspring, that survive as well, and pass the genes. So in a way taking care of the group is taking care of yourself.
Yes i agree. But i like to put things in perspective. On a scale of humanity existence. Humanity is around 200k years old, civilization around 4k and industrial age 0.1-0.2k years. So 99% of our existence we were hunting and fighting wild animals and struggle to find food. Our body and brain is sculpted from evolution for this conditions. So old brain, new conditions. We can try to reprogram. This is hard work :)
Well, we are still mentally evolving animals but not collectively. Instead of uplifting the weak, we prey on them.
The law of nature may be simple, but it is not what you say. It is: "The good-enough survive".
Just a quick correction - The law of nature doesn't always favor the strongest. It favors the most adapted to the environment. They could be strength, speed, camouflage, intelligence, rate-of-growth, or so many other variables.
I agree humans can be empathetic and take steps to increase the amount of variables that can be successful in an environment.
This is true as well. The point is that we are past those things. People this days cant imagine what is like living in a cave, and not having what to eat for days, with no other options. If they can only imagen they will very hapy with todays situation. But with all that we have today, we lost purpose .... and this is a modern day problem.