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.
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The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp it, but it will never feel right to us.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.
Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
Natural selection is not evolution.
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
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