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**RlUbQU3R** · 10-21-2010, 08:32 PM

Just because I love debate...

A small group of people who take pity on its members who have had some misfortune and help them get back on their feet, may find that they have a stronger chance of survival than individuals or groups who quickly cast out their weakest. I could conceive of a pretty short term evolutionary benefit of charity, empathy, etc.

I love debate too...

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This is the argument biologists use for the their existence in the first place, however I don't think the time frame is short at all. History is full of opposite examples (look up the culture and history of Sparta, for example).

* and be careful I could easily and at least somewhat rationally argue pretty much any position starting from communism and eternal love and ending with how beneficial to society it is to regularly beat ones wife/girlfriend.

10-21-2010, 08:32 PM	#17
RlUbQU3R Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 582 Senior Member	Just because I love debate... A small group of people who take pity on its members who have had some misfortune and help them get back on their feet, may find that they have a stronger chance of survival than individuals or groups who quickly cast out their weakest. I could conceive of a pretty short term evolutionary benefit of charity, empathy, etc. I love debate too... * This is the argument biologists use for the their existence in the first place, however I don't think the time frame is short at all. History is full of opposite examples (look up the culture and history of Sparta, for example). * and be careful I could easily and at least somewhat rationally argue pretty much any position starting from communism and eternal love and ending with how beneficial to society it is to regularly beat ones wife/girlfriend.
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