These are adaptive, evolutionary responses.
According to Stephen R. Palumbi, the author of "The Evolution Explosion," it is time we started taking responsibility for our evolutionary actions.
"When nature, including the human being, is viewed as the result of mere chance or evolutionary determinism, our sense of responsibility wanes," he argues.Displaying a better-than-usual sense of public relations, the Holy See released the document on the eve of a world leaders' summit in L'Aquila, east of Rome (see article).
His belief in the creative powers and 'freedom' of the monad which he defended from Peircian tychism, scientistic determinism and traditional theism implicitly grounds an ethics of responsibility, while his evolutionary theism (a form of meliorism, rather than of optimism) inspires a confident yet not naive attitude towards life and its challenges.
Both physiological responses are evolutionary.
And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
The principles are start where you are; pursue incremental, evolutionary change; respect the current processes, roles, responsibilities and titles; promote leadership at all levels.
He notes the illiberal undertow of what he nicely calls "self-incapacitation books", or popular-science writing in behavioural economics and evolutionary psychology claiming to show what little part reason and responsibility play in how we behave.
At a personal level, Dawkins believes that whatever the evolutionary processes that have brought us where we are, we have a responsibility to act as moral agents.
