"In the current study*,* Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel."
Not entirely true...while this true, we are also genetically wired to help others in our society. It is not just about ensuring that say your brother survives so that if you die, your family genes are passed on, one of the hallmarks of "being human", from an anthropological standpoint, was taking care of the elderly. In some of our early humans ,(and pre-human ancestors), we rarely if ever find specimens over a certain age. That changes with later societies, where we start finding people who died when they were very old...obviously past child bearing age and too infirm to contribute physically to the group. As we progressed into agricultural societies, that further went out to being altruistic to others even though we had nothing to gain from it. Not exactly a novel idea. "Finally, one of the main problems with "liberalism" (I hate labels because today's liberals are so different from the origin of liberalism) is their intellectual elitism. They believe that the know what is best so people should just do what they say do. Fascism basically." Ok...so smart and educated = fascist Stupid and uneducated = freedom loving patriot...got it Jer ;-) Actually, most dictators...both fascist and Marxist...tend to go after the educators and intellectuals first as part of their takeover...so no...not fascism. Go read some history Jerry. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 7:50 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: LIberals and Atheists Smarter than Conservatives and Believers <snipped> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:327428 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
