> From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> --- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I tend to doubt very many Brin-Lers--other than
> > certain Trolls--had
> > difficulty understanding you.
> 
> I did, actually, and I have an extensive background in
> evolutionary psych.
> 
> My problem with it - from what I did understand - is
> the problem shared with most evolutionary psychology. 
> It struck me as a "just so" story.

I never said it was correct.  Just understandable.

> So how does that square with the idease expressed
> here? I'm not even sure, but evolutionary psychology
> is a very, very, very thin reed on which to rest an argument.

I tend to think extremism develops from out of control societal feedback
loops, and that like any other parasitic disease extremism that's
effective in some way is selected for.

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