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Haddock states in 2006: "The reality is that the brains of human beings -- unless they fall within the demographic sliver we call psychopaths -- are hardwired not to kill other humans... That's why military training camps, police academies...self-defense pros are constantly searching for more effective methods of suppressing the human revulsion to taking human life -- virtually rewiring the brain to react first in certain situations with an automatic response to kill "(Haddock, 2006).
Originally posted by ANOK
reply to post by lucifuge
I thinks it's been pretty much proven that Humans are naturally altruistic, and it's outside forces that cause us to act anti-socially.
When people are raised in a system that is detrimental to Human nature then we should expect a perversion of that nature.
Originally posted by CharlesMartel
Apparently, you haven't been around a lot of 2 and 3 year old's lately, who show that people are naturally selfish. Altruism comes from learned beliefs.
Altruistic behaviour is common throughout the animal kingdom, particularly in species with complex social structures.
2.1 A Simple Illustration: the Prisoner's dilemma
The fact that correlation between donor and recipient is the key to the evolution of altruism can be illustrated via a simple ‘one shot’ Prisoner's dilemma game. Consider a large population of organisms who engage in a social interaction in pairs; the interaction affects their biological fitness. Organisms are of two types: selfish (S) and altruistic (A). The latter engage in pro-social behaviour, thus benefiting their partner but at a cost to themselves; the former do not. So in a mixed (S,A) pair, the selfish organism does better - he benefits from his partner's altruism without incurring any cost. However, (A,A) pairs do better than (S,S) pairs - for the former work as a co-operative unit, while the latter do not. The interaction thus has the form of a one-shot Prisoner's dilemma, familiar from game theory. Illustrative payoff values to each ‘player’, i.e., each partner in the interaction, measured in units of biological fitness, are shown in the matrix below....
Originally posted by ANOK
reply to post by lucifuge
Thanx for posting that looks like a good vid, will watch later.
I think a lot of the the idea that we're not naturally altruistic comes from the church, they want us to believe we need God, and them, in our lives in order to be moral.
Just another little lie that has caused devastating perversions of Human nature. All a part of keeping us in fear, and easy to manipulate and coerce.