Adoption vs Blood Relation || Acharya Prashant

Full video : (Gita-2) Our strong tendency to resist the Truth || Acharya Prashant, on Bhagavad Gita (2023)

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00:00why most species don't eat their own. And even among members of those species, you won't often

00:06find blood relations assaulting each other. The reason is simple. The body wants to propagate

00:13the DNA. So if it has to kill, it chooses to kill a distant DNA. That's the reason parents care so

00:21much for their offspring. That's the reason when someone who does not want to produce a kid tells

00:28off her decision to her parents. They say, but you know, your baby is after all your own. If you

00:33will adopt a baby, it won't be the same thing. And if you question, they'll not know the answer

00:38because they have not studied evolutionary biology. The answer is simple. Your baby does

00:43not carry your, and the entire thing about reproduction is the furtherance of your own DNA.

00:48That's what the animal inside us wants. My DNA should continue. My DNA should continue.