Bolder-dash writes:
Its interesting that you use the term risen.
In what sense is this a form of rising? There really isn't a quality of goodness to the sense of empathy, or sadness or emotion. In fact these emotions are much more of a burden. if we don't have them it would be much better. Then if people died we wouldn't care, and then we really could have survival of the fittest.
This might be slightly at a tangent to the thread, but I must say something about your use of the term survival of the fittest.
Evolution is not a compatition for literally the "fit to survive" and produce "fitter" individuals. Otherwise all animals would evolve into armoured hulking beasts with rending talons and jaws of steel.
Rather it was whatever strategy that makes you live that evolution "selects" (quotation marks because evolution doesn't think).
If an animal's emotions allow it to survive better, then that is the fittest from evolution's point of view.
If an animal caring for other individuals helps it survive, then that is the fittest from evolution's point of view.
It's not survival of the fittest, but rather the fittest are those who survive, whatever quality or technique they may use.
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