Survivor!

[Lisa & Ian Murray]

>>That is, groups of altruists or even reciprocal altruists replace(i.e.
eliminate through natural selection) groups of egoists provided that
group selectionist pressures are stronger than  individual selection
pressures. *Unto Others* by Sober and Wilson is the locus classicus in
the philosophical, psychological and biological refutation of egoism and
individualism.

Sam Pawlett
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The larger question is whether the selection "mechanisms" would be stable
enough to prevent the re-emergence of egoists, given the improbability of NS
wiping them out. One can't refute egoism any more than one can refute
capitalism.

Darwin's quote is the perfect apologia for imperialism and racism. Isn't the
quest for advantage itself antithetical to altruism? Also to the extent that
altruists are "locked in" to a struggle  against egoists, isn't that, too,
just a different form of social Darwinism?

Ian