D&D and the rising pandemic

[FitzTheRuke]

I take it as implying a physiological difference (but that is probably a hypothesis awaiting a "how"... aka not real solid science lol)

Then you gotta factor in the old nature vs nurture. Obviously, what makes a person is BOTH - but how much does brainwashing teaching/parenting factor into it?

 

[Garthanos]

Then you gotta factor in the old nature vs nurture.

Teaching a more extreme disgust reaction at rotten meat? ALMOST always relating to that other stuff.... just seems really really odd. Chicken and egg

 

[Garthanos]

They bred foxes based on low fear response to humans and in just a few generations physiological changes occurred they started getting doglike physical features... floppy ears and the like.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Teaching a more extreme disgust reaction at rotten meat? ALMOST always relating to that other stuff.... just seems really really odd. Chicken and egg

Sure. It's not so much "Look at this rotten meat. You should find this foul!" kind of teaching, but more kids-watching-adults-react, and deciding that they will react that way too. My daughter was born a picky eater. My son was not. But he watched her decide that things were yucky enough to become picky over time. Now she's grown into an adventuresome eater (she'll at least try "weird" things - this she learned from me - I'll eat anything once. If it's good I'll eat it again!) while he still only likes to eat his "favourite" things. That's learned behavior.

(Of course, this also shows how much folly parenting can actually be - I have actively taught them to be experimental eaters. So far that only worked on one of them.)

 

[niklinna]

They bred foxes based on low fear response to humans and in just a few generations physiological changes occurred they started getting doglike physical features... floppy ears and the like.

Oh it wasn't doglike—it was domesticated. Pigs, horses, other domesticated animals have similar physiological features that their wild cousins don't! Fascinating stuff.

 

[Garthanos]

Sure. It's not so much "Look at this rotten meat. You should find this foul!" kind of teaching, but more kids-watching-adults-react, and deciding that they will react that way too. My daughter was born a picky eater. My son was not. But he watched her decide that things were yucky enough to become picky over time. Now she's grown into an adventuresome eater (she'll at least try "weird" things - this she learned from me - I'll eat anything once. If it's good I'll eat it again!) while he still only likes to eat his "favourite" things. That's learned behavior.

(Of course, this also shows how much folly parenting can actually be - I have actively taught them to be experimental eaters. So far that only worked on one of them.)

Yes but now WHY is there an association with thinking loyalty is the primary virtue and believing lies like trickle down economics is a functional thing?

 

[Garthanos]

Oh it wasn't doglike—it was domesticated. Pigs, horses, other domesticated animals have similar physiological features that their wild cousins don't! Fascinating stuff.

Nods I brought up to point towards physical elements being connected with personality features. (in this case fear possibly paralleling disgust)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My father of Scottish descent also went with the horse thief angle but looking back they were a major sept of the Skene Clan centered near Amberdene and our name is even now on air ports.

Soooo…you were PLANE thieves? Got it!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Took mom for her booster shot today. Got one myself.

 

[Umbran]

The number of logical fallacies to that kind of thinking are adding up - Now you've got the Sunk Cost Fallacy to go with Occam and Hanlon's Razors (discussed previously).

Being tied into the Apple sphere isn't Sunk Cost. For example, if you get another iPhone, most of your old apps can be installed on your new phone at no extra cost. Move to Android, and you will have to find, and purchase, new applications, and so on.

If there's future work on one, but not the other, it isn't about sunk costs.

That said, sure, there's tons of logical fallacies in human behavior. What, you were of the opinion that our species was... rational, or something?