We can get the "everyone defects" result of the prisoner's dilemma that way, but I'd say our problem is more
that Westerners developed universalist morality that helped western societies prior to modern travel but
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Universal morality limits clannishness but if beyond the clan induces vulnerability to genetic invasion and conquest.
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When we limit clannishness we increaese tolerance and decrease retaliation spirals.
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So the scary insight is that in correcting retaliation spirals we created suicideal virtue signal spirals. (important)
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Meanwhile muslims have evolved the opposite strategy. at small scale we win at large scale they win.
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good points
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that same community orientation has turned self-destructive today (pathological altruism)
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purity signaling: status is a positional good. Individually advantageous; socially harmful.
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(exactly)
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