Re: SOCIOLOGY: Cooperation & Punishment

From: Kai Becker (kmb@kai-m-becker.de)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 01:25:44 MST


Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2002 01:22 schrieb Mike Lorrey:
> > > [,,,] Altruistic punishment means that individuals punish,
> > > although the punishment is costly for them and yields no material
> > > gain.
> Thus, we now have experimental proof that an armed society is a polite
> society....

Sure. No good service at your car repair shop? Shoot them! Nice idea,
indeed. Would also create many new jobs. Mike, your knee jerk reflex
appears to be more the product of a strongly biased perl script, than the
result of objective reasoning.

   Kai

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== Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany ==
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"


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