TheOtherDave comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 27 January 2012 04:24:57PM 6 points [-]

Of course, when performing such a cost/benefit analysis, it's important to take into account the alternative options.

E.g., if we alter our environment such that rape is a less effective reproductive strategy than non-rape, then the genes involved in coming to correct beliefs about the world and acting on the basis of those beliefs would no longer correlate with rape, but the genes involved in committing rape whether it's an effective reproductive strategy or not would continue to do so.

Comment author: [deleted] 27 January 2012 04:55:19PM 0 points [-]

Agreed. And I guess that brings us back to the ideas in fubarobfusco's first post in this thread. :)