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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Its fundamental to the urge to reproduce. Its literally the driving force of evolution.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And it shows that they haven't evolved at all past it.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is quite literally exactly zero evolutionary pressure to "evolve past it", since any gene that makes its carrier more likely to care for others children than to have their own will quite quickly be removed from the gene pool.

Correct. There's no evolutionary reason to. That's why I chose the wording, that people should evolve emotionally past their basic instincts and learn empathy for others. I'm literally saying that falling back to basic human instincts and saying "why should I care for others" makes them horrible people.