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Peter David Jones's avatar

I'm not sure about the premise that children aren't taught about selfishness...there's plenty about the darker side of human nature in humanities subjects like history and eng. lit. (Shakespeare!).

I think there could be a Typical Nerd Fallacy in assuming that kids dont learn about thses nasty things (because nerds disdain humanities subjects) and that you need sociobiology to learn them (because that's where nerds learn them).

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You might as well say physics is easily observable. Most teaching is giving shortcuts to ideas that are deducible in principles.

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