On Tuesday 18 Nov 2008 12:12:29 am ashok _ wrote: > Perhaps rationality follows a darwinian system of natural selection... > with its own rules and mechanisms of selection.. > You can rationally chose not to propagate...but that goes against > darwinian selection...where the natural instinct is to use the ability > to propagate...
Correct. Check "The Selfish Gene" for views on morality and evolution. "Rationally choosing not to propagate" would reduce the presence in the gene pool of genes of people who " rationally chose not to propagate." with a relative increase in proportion of people in the gene pool carrying genes that make them "rationally choose to propagate" shiv
