@hbdchick I have a question about your Hajnal line thesis: if group solidarity is weaker West of the line, how did the British run a world empire that required tight ethnic allegiance within the empire? Obviously, the British work well with & learn from others...
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Replying to @tomxhart
i don't argue that group solidarity is weaker inside the line. what there's less of, if i'm right, are behavioral traits related to familial/parochial altruism. getting rid of those might actually enable the big projects.
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Replying to @hbdchick
Thanks for clearing that up. I’ve only read a few of your things, and that was the first objection that struck me—possibly bc I’ve seen others connect your ideas to the concept of “pathological altruism” towards outgroups.
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Replying to @tomxhart
ugh. you know that's my most hated phrase, right? (>.<)
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Replying to @hbdchick
No, I didn’t. Why do you hate it? I have no view on whether it’s true or not—other than I don’t like using medical models (i.e. “pathological”) to describe actions associated with ethics.
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yes. me for the same reason, but with an evolutionary twist:https://twitter.com/hbdchick/status/1009180158866149377?s=21 …
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🎃 💀hbd chick 💀 🎃 @hbdchickReplying to @KirkegaardEmil @boni_bo @MarekMoehlingpathological in the context of biology - which is, of course, what we're talking about here - means caused by a physical or mental disease. traits that were selected for in one environment but don't work so well in another are not pathological. they're just maladaptive.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
I always think there must be a point where all our normative assumptions and biology meet. Biology must inform our ethics in some way & in these debates people often act as if the normative assumption have no bio basis. However, I have no idea where the meeting place is.
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