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Evolution made us cheats, now free-riders run the world and we need to change (www.cam.ac.uk)
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[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago

Evolution has made us a lot of things, but mostly it made us cooperative beings. We have the ability to do all kinds of good, bad, and gray-area stuff, it's more a matter of which of those behaviors our society pushes us towards.