Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-4867780-20180318224510

Very true, the nature of reality makes amoral selfishness a mandatory condition for long-term survival, and millions of years of evolution hardcoded this imperative in our minds on a neuro-genetic level, so it's hard to really blame people for feeling this way.

This, in modern society you no longer need this kind of ruthlessness to make your way in life, and what we call "enlightened self-interest" now outweighs it in terms of general long-term benefits.

The problem is that while largely outdated, our age-old evolutionary conditioning remains very strong and deep-rooted on an emotional level, so we end up being consistently led astray by the very instincts that were evolved to protect our best interests.

In simpler terms, the context and culture changed immensely but nature is very slow to catch up, so we are currently paying the price of this dichotomy.