From: The Pantophobic (trivik@stwing.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 23:43:26 GMT
> Perhaps a sharp distinction might be that the social level exists when the
> DNA of any individual creature is no longer the guiding force of choice for
> that individual, ie that the individual can 'sacrifice' to the social good
> (and where that social good can't be 'cashed out' in long-distance DNA
> preservation, eg kin preferences etc). That would - I think - restrict the
> social level to the human (so far as we know).
that definatelly not restrict it to humans. first of all in defining what it
means to be social you have to assume there is a society in the first place to
sacrifice onself to.
besides animals sacrifice themselves for the benifit of the heard/family all of
the time - eg. a bee literally commits suicide to protect the rest. but then if
you refuse to call the rest the society, then sure. only were a society exists
can one be social
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