re: #519 iossarian

I’m anti-death penalty. Obviously, if the males could get knocked out of the hierarchy without killing them, that’d work too.

Mainly, it was a demonstration that the violence in the baboons wasn’t ‘natural’, it’s just the way their behavior happened to societally develop. It is probably the easiest way for it to develop, which is why its overwhelming popular, but it’s not ‘natural’. It’s just one strategy.

So we can take a hopeful message that change is possible, that primates like us can have a society that’s more communal, that rewards assholes less, if we try to change it.

It doesn’t have to be through the assholes dying.