Sunday, August 05, 2012
How far can we extend group morality?
The scientific work of Wilson and
Cattell, as well as common observation, shows that morality evolved
from group selection. Survival advantages went to the groups who
could bond together morally without killing each other, in
competition, and even war, with other groups. The groups with the
morality which was best bonded within the group were more successful
in survival and reproduction. Individual and kin selection took
place within the bonded groups. Kin and ethnic selection does not
disappear from basic human nature when group selection is
acknowledged, politically incorrect as this may be.
To demand equality with no preference
for ones own group departs too far from actual human nature,which is
why it has never worked. But I think it is possible to extend
group selection to cooperative competition, rather than
murderous competition between groups. Both culture and genetics are
involved in this sublimation of aggressive drives.
Competition in group selection is the
natural way to find positive evolutionary mutations, which can ideally
then be shared with the world, while maintaining the natural
preference for ones own group. It has been shown time after time
that cultural and genetic stagnation sets in without competition. Does this
sound like too much for humans to handle? Human beings
are capable of this, but it does seem to require the cultural and
genetic sublimation of aggressive and sexual drives toward higher
evolution. We are all evolving to Godhood but we won't get there without cooperation within the parameters of actual human nature and group selection.
The one basic instinct that needs to be affirmed is the Spirit-Will-To-Godhood which activates material life
and is then shaped by evolution. To evolve in the world and in the
cosmos to Godhood is the essential purpose and reason for our
existence, and it is the present and future mission of religion and
science to help in this sacred mission, by guiding the various
competing groups in how we may best survive and evolve.
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