CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tribalism, Ethnocentrism, Deontological Ethics
23 Oct 2016
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They evolved to help us take care of the other people in our groups, but not so much people outside of our groups. The feeling of right and wrong is culturally determined and evolutionary history. Self-interest: i care about my family and myself. All animals have instructs for gene-preservation (with exceptions. This has been shown in species like wasps. Some species will kill itself to protect its genes. For example, a bee will sting to protect its hive and kill itself. Sharing food used to be a life and death matter for us. Tribalism: i care about us, but not them. Tragedy of the commons is when there is a shared resource people will tend to abuse it more. Evolved morals in humans took care of this. I care about all people or creatures that can have positive or negative experiences: the tragedy of commonsense morality. In general, evolved and well-learned behaviours work faster than deliberate ones.
