“From an evolutionary perspective, considering other social species on this earth, it is remarkable that a bunch of unrelated adult males can sit on a plane together for seven hours in the presence of fertile females, with everyone arriving alive and unharmed at the end of it. We could be a lot worse than we are, according to our common notions of right and wrong. We have certainly come a long way towards becoming a co-operative, sympathetic, even loving species. Granted, this depends on your perspective: if you’re a biologist, as I am, you might notice how far we’ve come. If you’re a theologian, perhaps the more salient realisation is how far we haven’t. The meeting place between these perspectives is that we are full of conflicting tendencies and inconsistencies in our attitudes and behaviour. So we would do well to ask why this conflict exists, in addition to arguing whether we’ve done well or poorly in it.”
David Lahti (via azspot)
(via azspot)
