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What will that achieve? Next generation with no doubt will have their own POSs, their offspring think pretty much like them already, there is no way out of this vicious cycle.

I don't really blame humans in particular, a bear can eat it's prey alive and feel nothing at all about it, and many other similar examples of cruelty exist in nature, many even eat their own species in special circumstances, despite that I don't consider any of them evil.

Nothing short of a highly contagious virus that affects the brain and makes us more emphatic (with no other side effect) would break the cycle, but that's just sci-fi talk.



I wonder if somebody already experiments on altering toxoplasmosis


What, did you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time recently?


No idea who that is, but it's not particularly challenging to realize evolution doesn't overall favor empathy -even if it played some role-, sometimes it's the full opposite, sometimes is punished ("no good deed goes unpunished"), firemen are the most prone to burns, the equivalent it's true for many other altruistic endeavors, including rare occasional ones unlike firemen.

It's also not particularly challenging to see society lacks any intrinsic defence from the most ruthless and greedy from advancing in any given power structure inside of it, it's a long term damage so it's abstracted away while more immediate issues take presedence, it's in our DNA to give too priority to immediate threats, while long term problems such as this don't make the top 10 (another example being climate change, etc)




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