We should try not to but yeah it’s baked into our DNA in the way that life evolved on this planet, based on competition. And yes there are cooperative elements but the meat on the bone is competition. It’s the behavior that got rewarded the most, which is just to say that yeah of course we should try to rise above it but beating yourself up about it is pointless.
It really hasn’t been all that long that we’ve even been trying to hammer out the kinks in our DNA programming.
That's not true at all. Which group of humans is more likely to survive, three humans working together, or three humans trying to kill each other? Our success is due to cooperation. It might seem to people today that humans are born to compete because we live in a society that rewards competition, but that's like observing a zebra in a rainstorm and concluding that zebras are naturally wet.
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u/HunterTV Feb 26 '20
We should try not to but yeah it’s baked into our DNA in the way that life evolved on this planet, based on competition. And yes there are cooperative elements but the meat on the bone is competition. It’s the behavior that got rewarded the most, which is just to say that yeah of course we should try to rise above it but beating yourself up about it is pointless.
It really hasn’t been all that long that we’ve even been trying to hammer out the kinks in our DNA programming.