Why the natural virtues or moral virtues need to include ethnocentrism

When we define the natural virtues as "any moral virtue of which humankind is capable of " I think of the sociobiological definition of human nature as being 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. While this definition from the evolutionary sciences can synchronize with the moral virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, when they are made to be universal in reach they don't synchronize well with the ethnocentric and xenophobic aspect of human nature which created altruism in the first place.

Altruism or being for others was created largely from competing with outside groups which required altruism within groups to be successful against other groups who may have been less altruistic within their group, and so altruistic genes survived---and group selection remains the central unit of selection, as E.O.Wilson has recently affirmed. Christianity and other religions (including Marxism) called for altruism toward everyone, in-group and out-group, which inadvertently destroyed the very dynamic and origin of within-group altruism. This helps explain why two thousand years of Christian altruism toward all has not stopped wars, rather altruism-for-all destroyed the very altruism required to take social action in a group.

When ethnicity, localism, and the nation are taken out of the social process in the interest of abstract universalist or Enlightenment values (modern liberalism and cultural Marxism) then assimilation and altruism are slowly lost, since the deepest, most real, and most workable altruism comes from local, ethnic, and national connections, and not from a universalism which is usually nothing but airy abstractions, and in most cases is used to advance one group over the others by weakening their social bonds.

The natural virtues or moral virtues of which human nature is actually capable of need to include ethnocentrism which is the natural base of altruism. If we really want all people to "just get along with one another" we will allow the world and nations to separate into ethnostates and then protect them all from marauding imperialists, supremacists, and global money grubbers, with a light federalism. Far from being "evil," ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates are the realistic way to bring back real workable altruism and being-for-others.