Can We Count With Our Own Help?

As I started reading The Selfish Gene , the thoughts that filled my head expressly contradicted the thoughts that I had when I read the title of the book or investigated about it. Personally I thought that reading a science book was quite boring because all you can expect from it is facts, which you do receive while reading The Selfish Gene. But what I got from the book is a lot more than what I expected from it. I saw that the way that Dawkins writes has, with no doubt, a scientific root but you get not just theory but you get more literature like author-reader dialogue than what you would expect from a science book.

I liked that Richard Dawkins has the point of view of a scientist; he is a realist person. He mixes up two things: his opinion and his investigation results. He says, "Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature" (P. 3) In that sentence, what Dawkins did is to express what he wanted (to build a society in which people cooperate by all means to accomplish a sole purpose) and to express his investigation results (When he says that we don't count with the help of biological nature). So what he says afterwards is that we are born selfish and, once again, tosses the reader with his realism saying that we can teach the individuals to be altruistic and generous but that it would be harder to teach generosity to a person that was born selfish.