> I find it fascinating that some users here seem to be attached to the concept of an alpha male, reality be damned. What sometimes happens is that people use

> I find it fascinating that some users here seem to be attached to the concept of an alpha male, reality be damned. What sometimes happens is that people use flawed reasoning to arrive to correct conclusions. Has it ever happened to you that you made a mistake but then you made another mistake and these two cancelled each other out? My take is, wolves might or might not have an alpha male, that is completely irrelevant, but if so many people subscribe to the idea, then there must be something true about it. In particular, most human societies are highly hierarchical. Heck, "the land of free" elects a new alpha male every four years, many other countries don't even bother holding elections. > The lack of a true definition means there is no objective measure of what it is, which makes it impossible to feel secure in. Just because a concept cannot be easily defined it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Example: tell me what is consciousnesses. > It exploits psychological vulnerabilities in people and traps them: if you worry about your alpha/beta status, then you’ll be the type of person who wants to fix it, but there isn’t a fix because your perspective is the issue. This way of thinking is extremely common. When people face a concept they don't like, they just deny it. Otherwise their belief system would turn out to be incomplete.