@Outsideness right. you *don't* tell him he's sick, 'cause he won't understand it, and it'll prolly only annoy him (to your detriment).
.@Outsideness ...pathological. they'd just be no good in the middle of the desert.
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@hbdchick@Outsideness Altruism creates the desert. -
@PoisonAero yup.#IronyAlert (a strong, reciprocal altruism has in this case.) (@Outsideness see? now people are starting to understand!) -
@hbdchick@Outsideness that makes it pathological. But it isn't "altruism" anyway. It is a signaling tragedy of the commons. -
@PoisonAero no, that doesn't make it pathological. reciprocal altruism is an adaptation, not something cause by disease.@Outsideness -
@hbdchick@PoisonAero It's an extinct adaptation. And I thought we'd already shelved the disease thing. (Is cancer not pathological?) -
@Outsideness we can't shelve the disease thing if you keep using the word pathological. (~_^) most cancers prolly are in part pathological. -
@hbdchick I agree that to talk about "altruism disease" would be misleading. (Though not in terms of the classical meaning of disease.) ... -
@hbdchick Pathological =/= diseased. See #2 definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pathology … - 1 more reply
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@hbdchick If penguins were struggling to survive in a desert, it would be entirely reasonable to see the mismatch as pathological. -
@Outsideness no. and that's where you're confused. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -
@hbdchick That's where your usage of 'pathological' is going to prove unsustainable. It's disconnected from evolutionary reality. ... -
@Outsideness not at all. it's is *exactly* evolutionary reality.
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