[kosta50]

because it's likely that anyone who has traits or ideas too far outside the norm will be destroyed by the masses or the political elite and not prevail and procreate

In the competitive survival game, the unfit disappear. That is true of human and animal species alike. Adaptive behavior is survival.

As my friend Jo Kus once told me..."IF man is the pinnacle of knowledge - why is it that man still continues to war"

As if reason is what makes the world go round...

[stfassisi]

In the competitive survival game, the unfit disappear. That is true of human

It's a theory in human terms and not a fact ,dear brother.

[betty boop]

stfassisi said: ...because it's likely that anyone who has traits or ideas too far outside the norm will be destroyed by the masses or the political elite and not prevail and procreate.

And this was kosta's tendentious and nonresponsive reply:

In the competitive survival game, the unfit disappear. That is true of human and animal species alike. Adaptive behavior is survival.

This is a mantra of groupthink. It is completely blind to the problem that stfassisi was pointing to.