I read The Selfish Gene as a teenager.

Some found it cold. Others found it reductive.

I found it honest.

It offered me the beginnings of an algorithm for what objective compassion would actually have to look like in a mechanistic world.

Not sentiment masquerading as ethics, but a model of cooperation that emerges from elements maintaining their own well-being, growth, and perpetuation of identity.

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