it think it's actually due to something men are less competent at: building social support networks. We tend to get isolated easy.
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and people get a lot of self-esteem and meaning from being a hero. It's likely addictive.
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Heroes are precisely those most likely to make a genetic contribution, so they're actually the reciprocal of the cases under discussion.
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(I was trying to make a point about disposability, falling asleep + mobile --> jumped in at a weird place, think I derailed, apologies)
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No need, entirely within Twitter chaos-tolerance.
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I think being prepared to risk yrself for others, even viewing others as more valuable than yrself, doesn't mean you want to self-extinguish
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Okay, but it's hard to imagine there being no correlation.
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I think it comes much more from a feeling that ones life is meaningless and will never get better.
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Sure, but where does that come from? I'd expect there to be a definite evo-psych dimension. ...
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there's a slight problem with evo-psych that you can come up with an evopsy explanation for almost *anything*.
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You'll have a default narrative anyway, and there's no reason (at all) to think it will be superior to an evo-psych-consistent alternative.
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There has to be an evo-psych explanation for (strictly) everything involving psychology, doesn't there? Where else does stuff come from?
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consider: I hear in japan there's a weird region specific mental illness where men think their penis has vanished (could be bullshit) but..
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probably true, but that doesn't necessarily map to suicide, a lot of those men will have had a healthy self-image
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That's an empirical hypothesis. Be interesting to know.
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