The Safe Side.

I was not in the mood of writing a blog tonight. Still, as I finished chapter 8 I could not help but think how I for the first time I could relate to any topic this book talks about. Have you ever felt that a teacher has favorite students and that he bothers you just for no reason? Or that maybe your parents treat your brother or sister better than you? If you are a typical teenager then you may know what I am talking about.

Every time something like that happened to me I could not help but think why, why do they choose the others over me? This chapter talks more about the relationship between a mother and her off springs still what I was able to understand was that the reason for having preferences all refers back to the selfish gene. “She can do her genes more good by investing a fair proportion of her resources in her children”(127). When a mother chooses one son over the other it is because in the end the choosing of that particular child will benefit her more.

What we must think about this know is that when they choose someone over you it does not mean they are against you. It means that they are being selfish and that before thinking in you they consider what will benefit them and stick to that plan. At the end of the chapter Richard Dawkins states that “if there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we can not except it to be part of their biological nature”(139). We can’t expect it to happen but we can hope for it. There is nothing that says that we can’t be biologically generous. Still, to be on the safe side I do agree with Dawkins that it should to be taught because as we have seen genes and humans are more likely to be selfish in every aspect of life.