Competition and cooperation

Social Darwanism believe that competition is a good thing and the people who die off, we're better off without because they don’t contribute much. Damasio believes that ethics came about through evolution. Emotion comes about in homeostasis and emotions underly ethical interaction in human. Through this ethical interaction, we get cooperation. This idea is contradictory in Social Darwinism since competition is looked at highly. In the book Damasio says: "The construction we call ethics in humans may have begun as part of an overall program of bioregulation." This bioregulation is a result of the chain of effects concerning emotion and evolution