Not only is this position actually minimizing one's fitness, but if one where to inquire the reason why an act of such sort would be wrong, the answer would not be because of the risk it places on a person's fitness, but rather because it is deemed morally wrong to murder another person for food. ... If the underlying motive that compels individuals to act is fitness maximization, then how does this theory explain altruistic selfless behaviour? ...

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Throughout the novel "Lord Of the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses ...

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He finds the human race looking up to God as a fatherly figure whom we are terrified off, and whom we look up for protection at the same time. ... The instinctual wishes which are born in every child, can cause some people, neurotics, to act in a asocial way towards these prohibitions as a way of defense. ... For Freud this as an example of infantile prototype, a child fearing its father, and at the same time being sure of its protection against the dangers. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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• Grade Level: High School