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Cynically, people collectively are a sum of their evolutionary lessons. Evolution is never wrong.


You seem to define right and wrong in terms of winners and loosers at the game of life. If you survive, you’re right? No matter what you do, the end justify the means? Is that what you’re saying?


In a way yes. However my emphasis is more that the collective society can't be just wrong, as much as we may sometimes want to paint the picture as such.


Evolution often fails.

Of all the species that have existed on Earth at some point over the past 3.5 billion years, over 95% have gone extinct. That's part of the natural process of evolution.

(Stat from https://www.theworldcounts.com)


Comparing human evolution to 3.5 billion years of millions of other species is irrelevant to the subject matter (assuming it is even possible to foolproof data that goes back that long). And your claim doesn't mean that evolution failed necessarily.




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