so you claim, yet condoms have been around for generations now and my perception is that their use has only increased over generations. am i mistaken in this?
> What contradictory behavior are you referring to?
i said "apparently contradictory": on first look it appears to be contradictory, whether it objectively is or not. better would have been for me to use "unexpected", best would have been "unpredictable": because evolution produces so many random effects along the way.
> we can't all just get along, because we live on a finite planet with finite resources, and at the end of the day it is Darwin who runs the show
Darwinism suggests here that solving for limited resources will someday be required for an organism to be successful. it doesn't care how that's solved for: how can you be so confident that the emerging solution won't be coupled with "all [of this organism] just getting along?" for example, an unending arms race over physical superiority may be disastrous against resource use, and a more successful strategy might be some level of cooperation that avoids that arms race. if today's humans are a Darwinian product consider that they differ from parts of the past both along increased large-scale cooperation (e.g. cities) and less individual-against-individual violence (e.g. violent crime). that already looks a lot more like us "just getting along" than many stages of the past.
how long will this be stable? where lies the next local optima? can anyone really know?