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Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, referring to ants, once said that "Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species", meaning that while ants and other social insects appear to live in communist-like societies, they only do so because they are forced to do so from their basic biology, as they lack reproductive independence: worker ants, being sterile, need their ant-queen to survive as a colony and a species and individual ants cannot reproduce without a queen, thus being forced to live in centralised societies. Humans, however, as a more advanced biological being, do possess reproductive independence so they can give birth to offspring without the need of a "queen", and in fact humans enjoy their maximum level of Darwinian fitness only when they look after themselves and their families, while finding innovative ways to use the societies they live in for their own benefit.

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Par taam skudraam, man ir kolegis (aah man nav laika rakstiit latviski shorit) -a gay colleague who put forward the same rationale for existence, when 6 tervetes into our careering conversation, this aging father of 2 (me) asked him 'what the point was for him'. "Not all of us can or will breed you see, but then neither can most ants....

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"...In fact humans enjoy their maximum level of Darwinian fitness only when they look after themselves and their families, while finding innovative ways to use the societies they live in for their own benefit."

I've long thought Darwinian fitness was enjoyed when we are not alone, which raises the ethical question of what you contribute, which depresses me even as I write these words.

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Tu esi savādāks. Raksti.

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ok

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