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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 27 Mar 2016

    How the tribal warfare of our ancestors helps make sense of the Islamic State (by Harvard's Luke Glowacki).http://wpo.st/5xeP1 

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      2. vakibs‏ @vakibs 27 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker No hunter-gatherer was a suicide bomber. Suicidal attack was unknown in hunter-gatherers, but common in "States" (Islamic or not)

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      3. Dario Maglov‏ @DarioMaglov 27 Mar 2016
        Replying to @vakibs

        @vakibs @sapinker Maybe one should point out that hunter-gatherers had no explosives....

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      4. vakibs‏ @vakibs 27 Mar 2016
        Replying to @DarioMaglov

        @DarioMaglov @sapinker The more important thing was that hunter-gatherers had no greater allegiance to a "state" than to their own lives.

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      5. Dario Maglov‏ @DarioMaglov 31 Mar 2016
        Replying to @vakibs

        @vakibs @sapinker There were no states but tribes. And those tribal instincts are still making a lot of problems.

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      1. SlipperSox. Medium.‏ @finddatsolution 6 May 2016
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        @sapinker @biscate9 what doesn't make sense: non-existent state, refusal of US to destroy them- Iraq is defeatable, but Daesh is not? BS.

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      1. SlipperSox. Medium.‏ @finddatsolution 6 May 2016
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        @sapinker @biscate9 ugh. Maybe you could investigate falsity of their CGI program,their rejection of historical Islam,embrace of nihilism

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      1. Joe Iacovino‏ @JoeIacovino 28 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @washingtonpost It makes sense when you simply look at nationalism

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      1. Fergus Meiklejohn‏ @airuyi 28 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker "...a cultural system that awards warriors with social benefits" Doesn't that also describe the USA and it's allies?

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      1. Swiftgineer‏ @CharlesAstorDev 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @washingtonpost Let me make it clear. We have terrorism because of a specific set of beliefs. @SamHarrisOrg #RegressiveLeft

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      1. Basal fill?‏ @Derds 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @EvanHD @washingtonpost but this is idiocy. If we can see the pattern, then we can disrupt the pattern. The world is less violent

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      1. Zach Margulis-Ohnuma‏ @zmolaw 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker this is simplistic and unfair to simple societies. Violence comes from ignrorance, fear and (especially) moralism, not DNA.

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      1. PJ‏ @JP46251093 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @EvanHD too simplistic-Isis is a collection of brutes and psychopaths all brought together in one mindset not least via technology

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      1. Jimmy Schu, CSCS‏ @Midnight_Junkie 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @washingtonpost That's an insightful article. Never thought about it like that. But now with modern weapons too...

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      1. vakibs‏ @vakibs 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Antagonistic states can live by accord of peace. "Islamic State" for all stupidity, is a "state". No need to slur hunter-gathers.

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      1. Dare To Think‏ @BlueAnt2014 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @washingtonpost why western values aren't alluring to Isis recruits? Excellent question, but provided explanations are shallow.

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      1. Lauhona Ganguly‏ @LauhonaG 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker & the human wiring that enables love & peace? This political historical decontextualization & bio-evolutionary logic is dangerous.

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      1. John Ferguson EIU‏ @john_c_ferguson 27 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker fascinating. The cultural and psychological challenge seems clear, but very challenging.

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