pinker despre evolutionistii care vor sa fie si moralisti dar nu prea le iese: we value music, therefore want it to be an adaptation; we deplore violence, selfishness, tribalism, rape, and sex differences, therefore want them not to be adaptations

I have still not seen a bona fide adaptive explanation for music. Ironically, when it comes to music, everyone is a rabid, evidence-free, panglossian, just-so-story loving adaptationist,

while when it comes to psychological phenomena for which we have enormous bodies of empirical evidence, they are in a state of denial. I think it's the moralistic fallacy again:

 we value music, therefore want it to be an adaptation;

 we deplore violence, selfishness, tribalism, rape, and sex differences, therefore want them not to be adaptations

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