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>One strategy, named the r-strategy, imbues those who are programmed with it to be averse to all peer on peer competition, embrace promiscuity, embrace single parenting, and support early onset sexual activity in youth. Obviously, this mirrors the Liberal philosophy’s aversion to individual Darwinian competitions such as capitalism and self defense with firearms, as well as group competitions such as war.

HN isn't the place to be peddling this kind of bullshit.

Well, I do think so. With 'bullshit' I assume you think it's not correct. What in your quoted example is wrong?

Also one could argue that you vioalated one of HN:s two guidelines, namely:

"..., and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.", that can be found in paragraph three here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

The human genome has less information in it than a playlist. And even at that, we share most of our genes with mice.

Our brains can store at least 5 and probably 10 or 15 orders of magnitude more information.

I'm not saying that genes don't influence our behavior, but if you pick a random human behavior, it orders of magnitude more likely to be learned than to be determined by genetics.

People who disagree with us are not somehow less evolved than we are; they just have had different life experiences that we did.