How Selfish of You to be Nice

  If genes purpose is to survive and create survival machines then why woud it create altuiristic machines as well? Well, they don't, altuirism is against the gene's purpose and therefore against nature's purpose. Then why are some animals altuiristic, they are not. As explained in the "cave" theory and in the "never brake lines" theory, behavior that may seem altuiristic is acctually selfish, it just creates some colateral damge that seems to help others. We absolutelly never help others just because of the sake of helping, even volunteer charity work is selfish, we do it for many selfish reasons, maybe because of social pressure, or to feel good about ourselves or to make us feel better than others, or many reasons that we end up focusing on ourselves and our needs. We need people to be selfish, you cant be selfish on your own, it wont make a difference, as much as you cant be altuiristic on your own. Thats were the "Prisoner's Dilema" game comes in.


  Tit for Tat vs. Tit for Tat was the winning strategy and it fits perfectly with my logic, in Tit for tat both players won points by helping out each other, not as much points as they could win by taking advantage of the other, but they won a good accumulative amount. This may seem as alturistic behavior but it is acctually done because its the best outcome for the player. Since the point of the game is not to see who has more points but to have many points then thi was the best winning strategy for you, you, not the other person, you! You chose this strategy so you would have many points, not for your opponent to have many points as well. 


   There are no alturistic beings, they would be the first ones to get screwed over and the first ones to die. This is certain, however this does not eliminate alturism from the survival equation. Alturistic behavior is a very benefitial attitude for survival however it can only work if its done out of the most self-centered, selfish intentions.