Human values are frequently in conflict with each other—which is the main explanation for all the fighting and wars in human history.
The explanation for this is pretty obvious: humans are close relatives of animals whose main role in life has typically been ensuring the survival and reproducion of their genes.
Unfortunately, everyone behaves as though they want to maximise the representation of their own genome—and such values conflict with the values of practically every other human on the planet, except perhaps for a few close relatives—which explains cooperation within families.
This doesn’t seem particularly complicated to me. What exactly is the problem?
Human values are frequently in conflict with each other—which is the main explanation for all the fighting and wars in human history.
The explanation for this is pretty obvious: humans are close relatives of animals whose main role in life has typically been ensuring the survival and reproducion of their genes.
Unfortunately, everyone behaves as though they want to maximise the representation of their own genome—and such values conflict with the values of practically every other human on the planet, except perhaps for a few close relatives—which explains cooperation within families.
This doesn’t seem particularly complicated to me. What exactly is the problem?