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Possible leftover maladaptive behavior. Or maybe it is still adaptive (for the group) in whatever indirect way. Sacrifices in the old days are speculated to be
by strogonoff 2y ago
Possible leftover maladaptive behavior. Or maybe it is still adaptive (for the group) in whatever indirect way.
Sacrifices in the old days are speculated to be healing for society by venting certain violent impulses out. Perhaps suicide could be healing by having society take a look at itself and reconsider something, but in modern days this would not work as they are not publicised.
I am intentionally adopting an extremely society-centric position, to counter-balance individual-centric position usually adopted by default. (Again, an individual literally does not exist without the society.)
- bentt 2y agoI think that's fair to look at it societally, but the concept of a collective goes up and down fractally. You have self, family, neighborhood, town, etc going up... and then going down you have organs, commensurable organisms, cells, genes, etc. All replicable and self interested in their own contexts. While we can argue against overgeneralizing, models from one scale often elegantly explain dynamics in other scales. Apoptosis, auto-immunity, depression (learned helplessness) can emerge at scales other than where they are most familiar.