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POPSWhy kindness has become our forbidden pleasure? "What is to be done? Nothing, many would say. Human beings are innately selfish and that is that. Newspapers bombard us with scientific evidence to back up this pessimism. We read about greedy chimpanzees, selfish genes, ruthless mate-selection strategies, even about meerkats - those famously cooperative creatures - who instead of looking out for their fellows spend most of their time "watching their own backs". Richard Dawkins of "selfish gene" fame lays it on the line: "Human society based simply on the gene's law of universal ruthless selfishness would be a very nasty society in which to live. But unfortunately, however much we deplore something, this does not stop it being true ..." Yet Dawkins does not despair: "If you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity "
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POPSMy Atheism Is Not A Rejection Of Your God “Your kindness for weakness I never mistook I worried you often, yet you understood That life is so fleeting, these troubles won’t last Forever” I am definitely NOT a believer. Not as I see others behave when they claim to be believers, anyway .I want nothing to do whatsoever with that kind of *faith*, so I distance myself from organized religion as far as I possibly can. I don't disbelieve either, though. I guess I am just somewhere in between.