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Sun 22 Dec, 2013 05:57 pm
Dawkins' "selfish gene"... what's wrong with the concept?
Dawkins informs us that community developed out of selfishness. But a gene must be part of a community before selfishness can develop. Oops.
Selfishness is expressed through a community. We cannot be selfish to food, the dead, to individuals we don't know about, and to physical objects and obstacles.
@JohnJonesCardiff,
Did you read the book, or just the title?
@farmerman,
Perhaps I'm being a bit cynical... maybe he read the back cover as well
(In the foreword to the book's 30th-anniversary edition, Dawkins said he "can readily see that [the book's title] might give an inadequate impression of its contents" and in retrospect thinks he should have taken Tom Maschler's advice and called the book The Immortal Gene)
@rosborne979,
no, I like the metaphorical phrase.**** em if they cant understand the nuances of language
@farmerman,
Well, you know what I always say farmer....
**** you, you ******* ****.
@chai2,
well you've just turned an innocuous thread on a book written by a british scientist into an NSFW thread.
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