I think that depends on how big we consider our "group" to be. If you were in Nazi era Germany and were watching Jews getting slaughtered, would you be more apt to identify with the Jews or the Nazi's? Same goes for Darfur. We tend to identify with the underdog. We become a group with them.
On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey wrote: > >> Its been years so I'll have to dig up the information again. But the >> point is that I think it can be shown that morality is strongly >> related to group survival. > > > What is unique with humans though is that we show it to others > *outside* our group. We care about people being killed in Darfur or > those that need help due to an earthquake or flood in some other > country. Helping them has no real benefit to us (and in fact, takes > resources away from our OWN group), yet we still do. That's > something that is pretty uniquely human. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306308 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
