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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8411081" data-attributes="member: 42582">From that article:they found that the relationship between processing speed (that is, intuition) and cooperation only existed for those who reported having primarily cooperative interactions in daily life. This suggests that cooperation is the intuitive response only for those who routinely engage in interactions where this behavior is rewarded—that human “goodness” may result from the acquisition of a regularly rewarded trait.And that's before we get into (what in my view are) very genuine questions about what can be extrapolated from the highly artificial context of experimental philosophy/behaviour economics contexts to actual social life.I don't have any strong view on whether people are &quot;naturally&quot; good or evil - I'm not 100% sure what that would mean, unless posed as a question in theology - but I do live in a country which has had mandatory detention of unauthorised onshore arrivals for around 30 years now, and which has a policy of using its navy to intercept asylum seeker boats and put the intercepted persons on islands in the Pacific which are financially dependent former colonies. And this policy seems to be incredibly popular with the electorate - no major party opposes it.So I find the idea of hardholders who violently protect their holds from the bikie gangs and others who want to enter them to share in their bounty pretty plausible. (I find the flavour text for the hardholder pretty compelling: &quot;When hardholders ruled whole continents, when they waged war on the other side of the world instead of with the hold across the burn-flat, when their armies numbered in the hundreds of thousands and they had f*****g boats to hold their f*****g airplanes on, that was the golden age of legend.&quot;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8411081, member: 42582"] From that article: [INDENT]they found that the relationship between processing speed (that is, intuition) and cooperation only existed for those who reported having primarily cooperative interactions in daily life. This suggests that cooperation is the intuitive response only for those who routinely engage in interactions where this behavior is rewarded—that human “goodness” may result from the acquisition of a regularly rewarded trait.[/INDENT] And that's before we get into (what in my view are) very genuine questions about what can be extrapolated from the highly artificial context of experimental philosophy/behaviour economics contexts to actual social life. I don't have any strong view on whether people are "naturally" good or evil - I'm not 100% sure what that would mean, unless posed as a question in theology - but I do live in a country which has had mandatory detention of unauthorised onshore arrivals for around 30 years now, and which has a policy of using its navy to intercept asylum seeker boats and put the intercepted persons on islands in the Pacific which are financially dependent former colonies. And this policy seems to be incredibly popular with the electorate - no major party opposes it. So I find the idea of hardholders who violently protect their holds from the bikie gangs and others who want to enter them to share in their bounty pretty plausible. (I find the flavour text for the hardholder pretty compelling: "When hardholders ruled whole continents, when they waged war on the other side of the world instead of with the hold across the burn-flat, when their armies numbered in the hundreds of thousands and they had f*****g [I]boats[/I] to hold their f*****g [I]airplanes[/I] on, that was the golden age of legend.") [/QUOTE]

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