This is a good point, but I would expect (the more evolved) human beings in the future to be closer to being fitness maximizers.
Re:The Baby-Eating Aliens
by michaelkeenan on Friday February 06, 2009 @12:37PM
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They've been bio-engineered, not evolved. The bio-engineers presumably cared more about maintaining human morality than about fitness-maximizing. So they kept the "human morality applies beyond humans" value.
for instance: we adapted to an environment of scarcity. now that we live in an environment of plenty a lot of people get fat. they can't turn off the adaptation to favor fatty sugary foods just because the environment has changed. similarly when encountering aliens adaptations that evolved to help us socialize with our own species may lead us to having strong opinions about the moral systems of said aliens. strong enough to take significant action.