OK. What you said there was just the trigger for me to
react to something that been bubbling up inside for a
while.
>But if Dawkins himself said it, I guess the discussion is over!
I didn't mean to suggest quite that. My thinking was as follows:
I assume that those who say all behaviour is basically selfish
are using evolutionary theory as a justification. I also assume
that people on this list will "believe in" memetics, and as that
concept was based on that of the selfish gene, I assume they
believe in that too, so their views on evolution should be
basically Dawkins-ish. So when I point out that Dawkins
says it's genes and not necessarily people that are selfish,
I'm pointing out a contradiction. OK, that long chain of
assumptions obviously falls down for some people at least.
But I'd be interested in finding out at what points, for which
people.
Robin