Dawkins´s Dilemma

In class, we read part of Chapter 12 and attempted to recreate the Prisoner´s Dilemma game. I thought it was very easy, both persons would choose cooperate and would earn .3 on their grade. After sneakily planning it, Barbara surprised us all by backstabbing Pedro and earning .5, Dawkins showing us selfishness at its best (or should I say worst?). But this is also an example of morale. If both persons care for the other they will probably cooperate for the two of them to be benefitted, it´s the right thing to do isn´t it?

Well what´s right for a survival machine may not be right for a person who isn´t abusing of other´s weaknesses and strengths for personal gain. To me, it all depends on the path the replicators have walked down, a path full of feelings and selflessness and a path of selfishness and abuse of others.