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Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2012 01:48:57PM *  -1 points [-]

Yet not all friends are fair-weather friends; we have a concept of true friendship—and some people have sacrificed their life for their friends. Would not such a devotion tend to remove itself from the gene pool?

  1. The representative properties of inviduals exhibit variance
  2. There's also the possibility worth speculating on that being non-moral may have become a burden
  3. The unfolding package of a biological entity is by far less complex than the actual phenotype, in particular with humans and their brains

So you explain away the beauty of a flower?

I think that the perception of beauty has something to do with mathematics, well reality rather, but math has something to do with reality.

I want to ask - not directed at anyone specific - the following:

Something akwardly inefficient and distorted, out of shape and disfigured - how often do you find there the essence of beauty?