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Tweet out of left field, but attempts to reduce the spectrum of human experience to evolutionary-psychological terms really cheeses me.
Why do we save a member of our species from drowning to our detriment? Oh well y'know, reciprocity for survival. Why would some of us say fuck that very same drowning person? Oh well y'know, cuz one less member of our species means more food for me or something.
In other words, if something explains everything simultaneously, it explains nothing. You can rationalize literally anything in terms of evolutionary psychology.
In general, anything that tries to explain and reduce human agency in terms of something as crude as staying alive can, as the French say, suck le balls
Sucking le balls has evolutionary benefit, we do it because subconsciously we want to gain favor of those who might help us when Winter comes and we need extra acorns to survive.
To be clear though, evolution as a developmental mechanism I agree with and I believe it explains much, but using it to reduce all psychological phenomena to passive mechanisms is dramatic overreach and is super dumb.
