[ExI] Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn?t allow > himself to hope

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 22:16:35 UTC 2018


On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
wrote:

* >Is it rational to die for your tribe? Not from the individual's
> viewpoint!  But it is from the viewpoint of the genes*


Yes but it can work the other way too. Is it rational to use a condom? Not
from the genes viewpoint but it is from the individuals viewpoint.

John K Clark
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