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[+] 84 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right! Has no one paid attention to chimpanzees, baboons, or other primates? Recognizing those like yourself and working together is baked in. Even in species that are even farther away from us, in an evolution sense, we see cooperation.

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    [–] 68 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    No.

    This is a load of shit. Why it has up votes blows my mind.

    Do some reading or watching of hunter gatherer societies and you'll see lots of group survival activities. Teamwork in hunts, in preserving food, in crafting tools, and making shelter.

    If we were this self-centered, we wouldn't have such advanced communication, which is how we were able to do all those group activities.

    Survival of the fittest is survival of those that cooperate.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Why it has up votes blows my mind.

    Because it's funny? Honestly why your comment is so highly upvoted is blowing my mind, although I mean you no ill-will by that.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Its part of the lemmy meta-game at this point is to take a joke super seriously and go on a psudo-intellectual rant about how the contents of the joke are the sum of everything wrong with humanity. Everyone needs their 5 minutes on the high horse

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I kind of read it more as the cavemen slowly coming to realize that they are both better off with mutual co-operation rather than that they are better off by simply being greedy, because the risk of the greed was too big. It was in their best self-interest to work with one another, i.e. they were both self-centered, and were still able to co-operate. Sort of some selfish gene type stuff, I guess.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Survival of the fittest is survival of those that cooperate

    The question nobody ever asks about survival of the fittest is what actually makes someone fit to survive?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That for nature to decide!

    Today: Be faster than your prey!

    Tomorrow: Have endothermic heat regulation so that you survive the asteroid impact that's going to blot out the sun!

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago* (16 children)

    Brevity is the soul of wit.

    This comic has 20 panels.

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    These are the types that went on to work for wall street.

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