Why Religions Turn Oppressive

摘要

The answer to this lies in the fact that while other people represent potential threats, they also represent potential opportunities, and human minds are designed to reap these benefits. Because of the way that evolution operates, genes can be selected because they cause their bearers to endure costs to help their close genetic relatives.11 This process, known as kin selection, has resulted in adapta- tions that cause individuals to deliver benefits to geneti- cally related others.