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October 07, 2008

NYT mourns ‘citizen enforcers’ pushing for Street punishment

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.

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