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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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