ok so I just started reading a book called the sociopath next door and it got me thinking about the human conscience, why do we have it, whats its point. if your an evolutionist it doesn't make any since because it often makes us do things that hurt or end our lives because we feel obligated by our conscience's. how many times have you confessed to something because your conscience bugged you about it. how many times have you helped someone and inconvesed your self because of your conscience ?
so I'm asking you whats the point, why do we have it, I mean look at it this way 1 in 25 Americans are sociopaths so its not like this is a small thing. what if we got it wrong and its not them who are sick but us.
A guy who tends like like psychology
Chris M
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Think about it this way: What would you lose if you didn't have a conscience? What would you lose if you didn't treat others as your conscience dictates?
ReplyDeleteYou'd lose your friends. You would become an outcast. Today, you might still be able to live, and even, however unlikely, reproduce. But earlier in history, being an outcast pretty much meant you couldn't even stay alive, much less reproduce.
And if you didn't reproduce, your selfishness genes died off.