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To: CarolinaGuitarman

Saving the lives of people we love sounds good to me as well.

It seems strange that human beings would have such motives-- as natural as we are.

I thought our genes were more selfish than that.


52 posted on 05/12/2006 12:52:55 PM PDT by lonestar67
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To: lonestar67
I thought our genes were more selfish than that.

. You are mistaken, then.
108 posted on 05/12/2006 1:13:16 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: lonestar67
"It seems strange that human beings would have such motives-- as natural as we are.

I thought our genes were more selfish than that. "

Cooperation is an evolved, useful trait. To say nothing of having an instinct to defend your closest relatives. There is no contradiction with evolution.
114 posted on 05/12/2006 1:15:23 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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