It is possible for X to be the norm and simultaneously cause suffering, contra your first paragraph. How common the characteristic is and how much suffering it causes are only loosely related. I’m not talking about normative values at all.
OF COURSE attachment to material trinkets, etc., come from our evolutionary background. Where else would they come from? That has no bearing at all on whether we would benefit from overcoming some of evolved tendencies. I have no idea how you could possibly have misinterpreted me to be arguing that a “conflict-free perfect Bayesian could, would or should result from evolution”. Please enlighten me as to how anything I said implies that.
You’re arguing against a position that nobody here has put forward. Notice how I said “overly attached” (overly implying that some amount is healthy but that there is commonly too much, where too much means “contributes to losing, not winning”) and you misrepresented me as saying “attached”, how I said “having persistent family and relationship problems” (indicating losing not winning over an extended period of time) and you misrepresented that as “loving your spouse and wanting to cheat” (which most of us probably agree is extremely common and not necessarily a problem at all).
Please try to read more carefully and not immediately pigeonhole me into “the most likely cliche”.
It is possible for X to be the norm and simultaneously cause suffering, contra your first paragraph. How common the characteristic is and how much suffering it causes are only loosely related. I’m not talking about normative values at all.
OF COURSE attachment to material trinkets, etc., come from our evolutionary background. Where else would they come from? That has no bearing at all on whether we would benefit from overcoming some of evolved tendencies. I have no idea how you could possibly have misinterpreted me to be arguing that a “conflict-free perfect Bayesian could, would or should result from evolution”. Please enlighten me as to how anything I said implies that.
You’re arguing against a position that nobody here has put forward. Notice how I said “overly attached” (overly implying that some amount is healthy but that there is commonly too much, where too much means “contributes to losing, not winning”) and you misrepresented me as saying “attached”, how I said “having persistent family and relationship problems” (indicating losing not winning over an extended period of time) and you misrepresented that as “loving your spouse and wanting to cheat” (which most of us probably agree is extremely common and not necessarily a problem at all).
Please try to read more carefully and not immediately pigeonhole me into “the most likely cliche”.