On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:26:11 PM UTC-4, Alberto G.Corona wrote: >> >> It depends on the circunstances'. If you read the article i guess that you >> will agree. But the thesis is that these moral intuitions are erroneous in >> modern societies and have a strong bias against succeesful people in any >> circunstance because these moral evaluations evolved in small tribal >> societies where everyone knew the merits of everyone else in detail > > > Evolutionary psychology is unfalsifiable, and in this case I think plainly > used for an ideological purpose. By erroneously framing the concept of > social justice as rooted in envy to begin with, and then applying this > pseudo-scientific validation of that error, the point is to say "Liberals > are just jealous, and that's because they carry an evolutionary defect." > > What about all of the people who think that imperialism and aristocratic > totalitarianism are perfectly fine? How did they escape this selection > pressure?
Evolutionary psychology is no less falsifiable than any other aspect of evolution. If psychology is not determined by evolution then how did psychology arise? Evolution should not be used for political or social agendas: that is committing the naturalistic fallacy. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
