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Old 11-19-2005, 06:25 AM
chezlaw chezlaw is offline
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Default Re: Morality and Evolution

It seems intuitively obvious that cooperation with those who carry the same genes is to the advantage of the gene and so we have evolved to cooperate. I think its true for other animals as well (plants anyone?) but they may not have awareness like we do and so may not know that they get feelings of pleasure/pain when they do things they feel to be right/wrong to others.

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