First of all, Benedict Carey’s dime-store venture into evolutionary psychology gets its thesis wrong by setting up a straw man.
Evolved desires for punishment do NOT conflict with evolved desires for cooperation. In fact, the punishment drive reinforces the cooperation drive.
A skeptical leftist's, or post-capitalist's, or eco-socialist's blog, including skepticism about leftism (and related things under other labels), but even more about other issues of politics. Free of duopoly and minor party ties. Also, a skeptical look at Gnu Atheism, religion, social sciences, more.
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October 07, 2008
NYT mourns ‘citizen enforcers’ pushing for Street punishment
Labels:
evolutionary psychology,
lenders' bailout
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