It is disturbing to realize that all humans alive today are the direct descendants of the most successful committers of murder, enslavement, rape and genocide, and all historical injustice is just the documented tail end of success and failure in primate evolutionary competition.
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That is true. However, in game theory the dovish individual has a better chance of survival (and procreation) than the hawkish one in a population consisting mainly of hawks. Our society seems quite dovish to me, though. "Let the others fight it out" can be a successful strategy.
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How so? In a society of defectors, the cooperators don't stand much of a chance. They become only stronger when they efficiently eliminate the defectors within their subgroup of cooperators. In a society of hawks, the doves can do very well, but in the role of domesticated cattle
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