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This may seem like an alien concept to you, but some people really are trying to optimize things other than their inclusive genetic fitness. Such a person may view the origin of a type of behavior as being distinct from its point.
I'm interested in knowing why you posted your comment. Do you really think that anyone here will take your advice to heart as a superior method of signaling? Are you attempting to convince others that they should try harder to be optimal adaptation-executers? Just trolling?
I am speaking from a biologist's perspective. According to standard biological nomenclature, animal behaviour exists mostly for the sake of propagating heritable information. Since most contributions had ignored the conventional explanations for altruistic behaviour in terms of signaling to others and reciprocal altruism, my comment was intended to provide some perspective.
If you seek to modify the moral behaviour of others, it helps to first understand why people behave as they do.
We're not seeking to modify the behavior of others. We're seeking to modify our own behavior.