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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kramodlog" data-source="post: 6184783" data-attributes="member: 55961">Indeed, feeling shame is more than probably something that is in our genes. What I would want to know is how that fits in a natural selection setting. If we start by accepting that helping other members of our tribe/species gives us, on the long term, a survival advantage, than I would postulate that shame comes from this. Not helping an other makes you feel shameful and that happens because helping others increases your chances of survival. I grant you that this is pure speculation, but what are you going to do, this is the internetz.In this case, wouldn't a sociopath be a mutant or potentially a manifestation of a competitive gene? Someone who is not really human or not has human as we are, he does not have the same social genes, thus behaves differently and probably must be isolated or eliminated. Yet, that can give that individual an advantage in various situations. It is like humanity is thorn between two sets of genes. Aren't we thorn between ideologies that reflect such behaviors?</blockquote>