What if those who rebel are not more altruistic than those who don’t? (In some cases, they could be terrorists trying to violently overthrow the government for personal gain, and there are plenty of intermediate cases. In all cases they think they’re altruists).
What if those the government kills are not particularly altruistic? (see for example the Cultural Revolution in China, whose rethoric was very much anti-selfishness)
What if there are other traits “orthogonal” to altruism, and where rebels tend to have the “worse” variant (less docility, more aggressivity, more violence, etc.)
What if the variance in altruism is cultural rather than genetic in origin? (even if altruism is “mostly genetic”, that doesn’t say much about the source variance in the population. There could be a hard-wired altruistic drives that exists in everybody, and minor cultural variations that explain all of the variance)
What if those who rebel are not more altruistic than those who don’t? (In some cases, they could be terrorists trying to violently overthrow the government for personal gain, and there are plenty of intermediate cases. In all cases they think they’re altruists).
What if those the government kills are not particularly altruistic? (see for example the Cultural Revolution in China, whose rethoric was very much anti-selfishness)
What if there are other traits “orthogonal” to altruism, and where rebels tend to have the “worse” variant (less docility, more aggressivity, more violence, etc.)
What if the variance in altruism is cultural rather than genetic in origin? (even if altruism is “mostly genetic”, that doesn’t say much about the source variance in the population. There could be a hard-wired altruistic drives that exists in everybody, and minor cultural variations that explain all of the variance)