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JacobJ1357

Does evolution avoid two clashing intrinsic desires (for example desire to help)?

:snoo: question

Would evolutionary process avoid creating intrinsic desire for help/wellbeing of others because it can often clash with intrinsic desire for our own wellbeing or sometimes survival.

Would that mean that empathy and guilt create feelings that make us uncomfortable and we get instrumental desire to help(intrinsic desire for our own wellbeing -> we feel bad because someone else is suffering (through empathy and/or sympathy) -> instrumental desire to help) or is it possible that evolutionary process hardwired that desire for other's wellbeing as one of intrinsic desires that is equal to desires for our survival and wellbeing?

Posted Jul 29, 2025, 6:31 AM UTC

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