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Originally Posted by tisonlyi
Genetics are a tenuous base on which to base capitalist dogma.
I suggest that you read the works of Richard Dawkins, starting with "The Selfish Gene" - should your personally selected divine revealer of Truth with a direct connection up to the bearded guy in the clouds allow you. HUMOUR ALERT.
Also, just to make it perfectly clear, the term "selfish" is used in a very specific, non-usual manner in "The Selfish Gene". Greed-is-good, free market, laisez faire capitalism is not backed up by Biology as nature's way.
Free markets are not a corollary of genetics. (no economic, philosophical, religious or political theories are)
Specifically, Ch. 12
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I already read it/them. I read the God delusion, the ancestors tail and the selfish gene, I didn't read the blind watchmaker but we are getting into redundant territory. Dawkins is funny.
He basically states what I state while trying to be a good liberal and claim we don't need to BE this way. I equate it with people trying to 'cure' homosexuality, you can't fight your genes and win in the long run.
I'd recommend the Red Queen by Matt Riddley, he puts human behavior into a genetic reproductive context quite well, something Dawkins does not want to do.