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The geneticist first concludes that replicating is not selfish, and from this ultimately concludes that “selfish” isn’t an accurate label for genes. Why isn’t replicating selfish? Because to be selfish, you must be bringing out the best conditions for yourself.

If we can validly draw the geneticist’s sub-conclusion (replicating is not selfish), then we have an automatic ticket to her conclusion. The only support provided for the sub-conclusion is that bringing about the best conditions for yourself is necessary for selfishness. To validly draw the geneticist’s sub-conclusion, we need to know that replication does not bring about the best conditions for oneself.

Weighing importance of one thing versus another doesn’t help us conclude that replicating is not selfish. (A) only tells us that selfishness is linked to something less important than helping people.

This means that replication fails a necessary condition of selfishness, so we can now validly draw the sub-conclusion (replication is not selfish). Since replication is the gene behavior that led to the “selfish” label, we can conclude that it isn’t a good descriptor for genes.

The conventional definition of “selfish” is irrelevant. It does not support a conclusion that replication is not selfish.

This tells that replicating behavior doesn’t only occur in genes. This does not help us to conclude that replicating is not selfish, or that genes are not selfish.

Lack of knowledge doesn’t change truth. Whether people feel like they can speak to a certain thing doesn’t change whether it is true or not.

Additionally, we are speaking specifically about genes and replication, not genetic behavior overall.

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