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ANNOTATION:
Why must values be consistent with natural selection.
You state:
While primary values cannot be derived from nature, they must be consistent with evolution and natural selection.
Aren't the most obvious conclusions to be drawn by making fitness the primary value things that are inconsistent with Human Rights? What motivation would there be for helping unfit people? Maximization of happiness in this case takes resources and time from people that are fit (able to survive and propagate). It seems to me that a more consistent duty imposed by fitness would be to steal ourselves (it can be done) to the euthanization of the unfit.
While you don't scare me your philosophy does. I'd rather have a world filled with hedonists than ones that believed that fitness was an ultimate value. Hitler believed that.
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