Poll: Are those without conscience evil or simply the next step in human evolution?

[Ciran]

I have to wonder how you got a girlfriend given you openly admit you have no care for another human being.

Anyway, no, its not the next step in human evolution. If anything, its a throwback. Humans are social animals. This is the skill that allowed a bunch of defenceless monkeys to end up in the place where we are now. People without the empathy would not form a social network - one would have to exist for them to exploit. In essence, they are social parasites, tricking people to do what they want through that system. Whilst this is a strategy that can work, as the groups evolve, more and more complex systems for detecting and removing these people will develop. Long term, I don't think its a winner. Short term, it does.

Agreed.

I get girlfriends and friends for that matter by not telling them about it in the first place, and maybe I am a parasite but I'm a content parasite at that, and in the short term of my lifespan I hope to remain this way, it may not work for humanity as a whole but it sure does work for me.

But that actually answers your question, to an extent. If it doesn't work for humanity as a whole, and humanity is now a social creature, then it is not an evolutionary step forward (accepting, of course, that a conscience is somehow genetically passed down). You are an abnormality in a gene pool that has allowed us to survive as a virtually superior species for quite a long while. I wouldn't necessarily call you evil (though asking us to compare the term "evil" to evolution is kind of like asking us to compare oranges and apples), but I also wouldn't say that you possess the necessary features that would advance the human race as a whole.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

As a person, I suppose you are better, but society would fall apart if everyone was like it.