https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1JT4y1J7hz?p=2
This brings me to the first point I want to make about what this book is not. I am not advocating a morality based on evolution. I am saying how things have evolved. I am not saying how we humans morally ought to behave. I stress this, because I know I am in danger of being misunderstood by those people, all too numerous, who cannot distinguish a statement of belief in what is the case from an advocacy what ought to be the case.
My own feeling is that a human society based simply on the gene’s law of universal ruthless selfishness would be a very nasty society in which to live.
But unfortunately, however much we may deplore something, it does not stop it being true.
being true 作宾补
This book is mainly intended to be interesting, but if you would extract a moral from it, read it as a warning. Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good 1, you can expect little help from biological nature.
注意如果你希望像我一样建立一个社会
Footnotes
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common good 公益；共同利益 ↩