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Those evolutionary arguments seem like not understanding the cognitive-evolutionary boundary. If you go with the "evolution is about survival and reproduction, so besides sex and murder everything else is a hypocrisy", you explain away altruism, but at the same time you explain away almost everything else. The argument seems sane only when it is used selectively.