I am the product of an evolutionary process. All my ancestors actively took steps to preserve their inheritance.
Fallacy. Very few people have a conscious intention to preserve their genes. And yet, a very large number of people do end up preserving them, because their behavior patterns are designed by a process which reliably yields organisms that preserve their genes. We didn’t evolve to be concerned about posterity, we evolved to have sex with each other, and to love and raise our babies (especially if we’re female).
Fallacy. Very few people have a conscious intention to preserve their genes. And yet, a very large number of people do end up preserving them, because their behavior patterns are designed by a process which reliably yields organisms that preserve their genes. We didn’t evolve to be concerned about posterity, we evolved to have sex with each other, and to love and raise our babies (especially if we’re female).