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Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion & Spirituality?

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wsoutherland
Posts: 25
Posted: 11.30.09, 05:24 AM
The reason we don't have global compassion is because we struggle to control resources. As our populations rise it is inevitable that resource become strained. If it were not for human conflicts, we would not have technology.

That said, we are in a unique place in history where, thanks to technology, most essential resources are plentiful. We share our technology with the rest of the world at some risk that it will be used against us one day with the hope that it will engender good will and help us solve more pressing problems.

It makes sense that nature would statistically limit overly heroic or globally altruistic emotions.
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Sarah999
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Posted: 12.24.09, 04:39 PM
IMHO compassion is inherited and it is NOT true that familial compassion is a given.
With more and more people in the US especially being successfully narcissistic, selfish, manipulative & charming enough to procreate, and full of hate and anger for anyone that gets in their way (including family) . . we are creating an ever greater population of people that are that way also. It succeeds in our culture to be that way! Narcissism, psychopathy, sociopathy etc. works . . Look around!
and as long as it succeeds . . we will generate more and more people like that . . and that is what is happening . . regrettably.
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