[lbo-talk] Altruism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Aug 10 13:19:15 PDT 2011


I don't think it worth debating, but I do object to the heavy-handed moralism of both Charles & Joanna.

Carrol

p.s. the Microsoft spell-checker doesn't recognize the existence of the word, "moralism."

On 8/10/2011 3:10 PM, c b wrote:
> 123hop at
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>
>
> Scientific American: On the Origin of Cooperative Species: New study
> reverses a decade of research claiming chimpanzee selfishness
> (http://l.ravi.be/nc2xPE):
>
> --- I don't think there's a human tendency more repellent to me that
> the need to insist that we are (superiorily) different from all other
> species.
>
> Ugh.
>
> Joanna
>
> ^^^^^^^
> CB; Originally we were more saturated with sociality than our ancestor
> ape-like species. But , eventually we invented private property, greed
> , war, nuclear weapons which made us inferior to the other species.
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