It is written in a book that we inherit so many different effective aspects of our personality through genes. It seems totally fine with me for inherit small boobs or shiny bald head or getting either high or low IQ. But when it comes to happiness, beloved science really disappointed me. According to studies, the happiness is an inherited characteristic from our parents by the factor of 50%. No matter how perfectly you build your social relations, or if you even deliberately blow up you relations, still there is a guaranteed 50% life satisfaction, waiting for you enjoy with. The number is so quirky that rose series of question in my mind; If your genes decided to be under 50%, does it worth to desperately try being happy? Or if your genes are already above, does it worth to get along with the complexity of social relations?
I always believe that our genes are a kind of prison to our evolution. In this particular era of our natural development, we are too ahead of our natural capacities, furthermore our demands have faced too many changes that our biological abilities cannot deliver effective tools to so we can adjust ourselves with our demands. For example, we can’t live more than 5 secs outside of our planet (as far as been discovered). This is where I expect a revolution from science, especially genetics.
This expectation could regard to the vast variety of needs either simple or complex, although what really caught my attention is whether it is urgent to have the sense of fear. As an intelligence species living in the 21st century, with the domination of an entire planet, do we really still need a sense of fear? Of Corse there are benefits to have a sense of fear, nonetheless, I think there is the faintest trace of drawbacks which needs to be argued. For example, whenever I asked a mild religious friend why do they insist to believe in god, every time we ended up with the fact that there is an uncontrollable fear deep inside certain people who only can be allayed by worshiping something divine. So far, this totally makes sense to me, but when you see results of religion in regions like the middle east, disadvantages of having the sense of fear easily outweigh the merits. Even if this chaos is effects of meddling other countries, still believing in religion seems like a great weakness that can be meddled by others, remotely.
Now, what it has to do with genetics? Well, in most cases, you can’t even argue such an idea with a religious person. I don’t know how but they prefer to keep fighting over their ideology than to sit and have a conversation about whether if it is true at all. But, if they discard the genetic fear, therefore abandon prerequisite of worshiping the god, there wouldn’t remain any reason to fight over.
I knew lots of unforeseen catastrophic trouble would come along with this idea. But, post a comment if you think there are another reasons that we should dump the sense of fear, one way or another, post it below in the comment section.