RE: Did Dawkins Disprove Dostoevsky?

I missed reading your articles and now that I catch up and read your last postings, you get some comments in a row from me.

The fact that niceness or cooperation has favoured our evolution seems to be something that has slowly but surely become common knowledge.
But what is understood by niceness and cooperation is another matter. Whether it is kindness that some wear masks for those who do not is not an ultimately answered question.

From a more detached perspective, one could say that contagion (if one follows the contagion theory and the theory about the immune system) is something inevitable and unavoidable. To strengthen the immune system, contact and contagion are needed within the social group, so that everyone has been through an illness once in order to be better equipped afterwards. Delaying this process only has the effect of delaying it, but a disease cannot be stopped. Personally, I don't believe in complete immunisation, so I prefer to go through a disease and rely on my immune system after the disease process is over.

For me, the avoidance strategies do not have particularly positive effects. It's like being trapped in the now cemented belief that evil is just waiting to strike you. So while you avoid everything to keep the evil away from you, you forget to live and love. Living under the sword of Damocles all the time makes you miserable, if you ask me. (not you, do I have to mention?) :)