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Irish_Dem

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7. If you read the Biological Altruism literature, you can see that altruism is Darwinian.
Mon Oct 9, 2017, 04:21 PM
Oct 2017

Monkeys who put their own lives in danger to sound an alarm to the group about an impending danger, increase the group's survival rate, loading on survival of the species. This is not learned, but hard wired biology.

I think however any biological altruism is over whelmed by dark side traits.

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