(December 31, 2014 at 11:09 am)alpha male Wrote:Societies have also favoured religion over atheism and inhumane practices such as slavery or torture... Stop talking about biology, I don't think it means what you think it means(December 31, 2014 at 9:42 am)Alex K Wrote: The fact that it's self-reinforcing, i.e., with positive feedback, could mean that small more or less random fluctuations gave rise to it.In that case we'd expect fairly equal numbers of male- and female-led societies and egalitarian societies. What we see is that the vast majority of societies in history have favored men over women. This indicates that there is a biological aspect which began these laws and customs. The laws and custom may then have been self-reinforcing.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
