Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> >>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
>
> Thomas> I refer you to the work of Brian Skyrms, on the evolution of the
> Thomas> social contract, in which he shows that there are sensible
> Thomas> evolutionary models in which human-style social altruism is the right
> Thomas> evolutionary strategy.
>
> We have had social systems where altruism as a social
> evolutionary strategy has been for under 20 millennia; we have had
> biological evolution sculpting inherent responses ever since the
> primordial soup.
The work of Skyrms is about the *biological* evolution of human
emotional attitudes. Which have been being "sculpted" for exactly the
same length of time as humans.
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