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Not quite the UF Philosophy Corner	by MatthewDBA	2009-04-30 11:30:03
It's the same reasoning as	by basher20	2009-04-30 11:47:14
Are you saying that	by MatthewDBA	2009-04-30 11:50:26
IMO, humans are biologically engineered as	by twixt	2009-04-30 12:52:46
I see what you're saying	by MatthewDBA	2009-04-30 12:59:41
But it seems to me a bit of a stretch to pull this back all the way to evolutionary principles. It seems a bit strange to me, for example, to say that "'looking good' ... enhances the probability of our individual survival." I have difficulty with it because it seems problematic to say (in a non-circular fashion) what constitutes "looking good" in a particular situation (including tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago), and whether that has uniformly enhanced the probability of individual survival. I don't think it's necessary to go back as far as evolutionary behavior to reach your conclusion about the dung heap and paradise. (I do agree with it though.)
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"Looking Good" adds to a person's ability to	by twixt	2009-04-30 13:46:58

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