And why should you have this urge? Natural slection would have her navigate the traffic by herself. The garbage men can takes care of the body if she doesn’t make it..
And why should you have this urge? Natural slection would have her navigate the traffic by herself. The garbage men can takes care of the body if she doesn’t make it..Humans are *social* animals. Google "reciprocal altruism" and get some books on evolutionary psychology before you spout off anymore.
Well its got nothing to do with religion or the supposed wishes of magical, mystical beings anyway.
10 miilion years of evolution selecting for social cooperation. Much more reliable than serving a "greater good", be it Aryan Destiny or The Will of God
That line of reasoning follows only if you believe old people have no value to the survival of younger people). But suppose the experience of older people have prevented the destruction of altruistic villages, while the non-altruistic villages killed off anyone who could have told them not to camp by a river that migth flood. The "compassionate-gened" people would reproduce, while the others wouldn't.
On the other hand, it could be a general "social" gene--that happens to make people more social and give compassion more broadly than just to just those in reproductive years.