<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I am sorry to say, but slaughtering each other is functional and rational from the viewpoint of genes.</i></font></blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><b style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">That's an oversimplification. Genes</font></b></span><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span>want<span class="gmail_default" style="">"</span> to get into the next generation<span class="gmail_default" style="">, and slaughtering everybody would not be a good strategy for doing that. Cooperation is just as an important a strategy as aggression, and humans are FAR more peaceful than our nearest genetic cousins, chimpanzees; and we are also FAR more successful from a gene's point of view. We may even be more peaceful than Neanderthals were because like chimpanzees there is evidence that there social groups didn't get larger than a few dozen, but with humans it typically runs into the millions. </span></font></b></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></b></font></div><div class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""> John K Clark </span></font></b></font><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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