“Ingroup-outgroup dynamics, the way we’re most motivated only when we have someone to fear and hate: this too is an evolved value, and most of the people here would prefer to do away with it if we can.”
So you would want to eliminate your special care for family, friends, and lovers? Or are you really just saying that your degree of ingroup-outgroup concern is less than average and you wish everyone was as cosmopolitan as you? Or, because ingroup-concern is indexical, it results in different values for different ingroups, so you wish every shared your precise ingroup concerns? Or that you are in a Prisoner’s Dilemma with other groups (or worse), and you think the benefit of changing the values of others would be enough for you to accept a deal in which your own ingroup-concern was eliminated?
“Ingroup-outgroup dynamics, the way we’re most motivated only when we have someone to fear and hate: this too is an evolved value, and most of the people here would prefer to do away with it if we can.”
So you would want to eliminate your special care for family, friends, and lovers? Or are you really just saying that your degree of ingroup-outgroup concern is less than average and you wish everyone was as cosmopolitan as you? Or, because ingroup-concern is indexical, it results in different values for different ingroups, so you wish every shared your precise ingroup concerns? Or that you are in a Prisoner’s Dilemma with other groups (or worse), and you think the benefit of changing the values of others would be enough for you to accept a deal in which your own ingroup-concern was eliminated?
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/03/unwanted-morali.html