Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.
The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.
Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
The tendency of everyone is to evolve.
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.