How altruism and morality does and does not falsify nature

The big error regarding altruism, which even Nietzsche made, was in how altruism and morality does and does not falsify nature. Altruism runs on a gradation from self to kin to ethnic group and weakens as it moves out toward the universalism of religions and political philosophies. Group-selection is the main unit of successful selection followed by individual selection. As E. O. Wilson put it: "Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals."

That is the hierarchy of altruism which invalidates the selfish theories of Nietzsche, Ayn Rand, and her libertarian followers. Selfishness in individuals only works well until an altruistic kin/ethnic-group comes along and overcomes them. That is how we ended up with genes selected that developed a human nature which is kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other things, with group-selection as the primary unit of successful selection, followed by individual selection.

Culture and politics can be judged as falsifying nature or not falsifying nature from this sociobiological perspective. Ethnostates and ethnopluralism look good when the biological origin of our social behavior is included and not left out as it largely is in modern liberalism, cultural Marxism, and libertarianism.