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Why human beings across time and culture view violent, genetically adaptive behavior as evil or for the more religious among us sinful, remains an unsolved mystery. | Why human beings across time and culture view violent, genetically adaptive behavior as evil or for the more religious among us sinful, remains an unsolved mystery. | ||
One theory is people dislike unfair and violent reproducers because they are a threat to their own reproductive success. | |||
One Gnostic concept (that some view as very blackpilled) is that the physical world is inherently evil, while the abstract world is inherently good.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_the_Good</ref> Since our brains exist in the physical world, but our mind in the abstract, the situation may be that we misapply concepts that should only apply in the abstract world onto the physical. | One Gnostic concept (that some view as very blackpilled) is that the physical world is inherently evil, while the abstract world is inherently good.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_the_Good</ref> Since our brains exist in the physical world, but our mind in the abstract, the situation may be that we misapply concepts that should only apply in the abstract world onto the physical. | ||