Comment on Why Support the Underdog?

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:24:25 GMT

Good explanations, but a couple quibbles:

1) This explanation seems to presume that the disutility of "Zug wins" is of larger magnitude than the disutility of "Allied with the losing side" proportional to the likelihood of Zug winning. This is not necessarily implausible, but is it likely to have been sufficiently common to exert selection pressure?

2) This explanation presumes that Urk retains sufficient influence after a failed bid for power that the disutility of "Urk hates your stinking guts" is larger than the disutility of "Allied with the losing side". Clearly the case in the Senate, but elsewhere?

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