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There should be a little altruism in everyone's life," McCurry said, "and a few stock options."
Isn't it a little self-pitying to ascribe misplaced guilty liberalism and soggy altruism to the same folks who bring us season after season of formulaic sitcoms, spandexed soap operas, and disease-of-the-week movies?
The second problem with the idea of some iron law correlating altruism with genetic relatedness--and thus correlating natural discord with genetic difference--is at least slightly more accessible.
In the case of altruism directed toward close relatives, we know that circumstances were indeed so conducive: Throughout human evolution, people were reared a) near close relatives; and b) near people who weren't close relatives.
I won't even try to explain the fallacy here, except to say that a) It consists of assuming that kin selection would make altruism proportional to overall genetic relatedness--that is, the percentage of all your genes that you have in common with another organism; and b) This assumption has been memorably characterized as implying that humans should, in theory, be "nicer to mosquitos than to marigolds."