Why do these people have zero self control?
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40,000 years of evolutionary divergence and the lack of a thousand years of 6th century Angl-Saxon law to punish criminals and cull murderers.
/we are not the same.
I feel like the behavioral and genetic effects of hanging all of your criminals doesn't get talked about often enough.
Few people know about 'the Execution Hypothesis'.
This is also one of the reasons I believe that abortion in cases of rape should not just be legal, but that it should be regarded as a good thing. I want fewer genes of rapists around, not more.
While I can concede the utility of it, I'm still going to balk at the prospect from a moral perspective. That kid didn't do anything to deserve the axe.
Utility and modernist morality are often at odds.
Sounds like a good way to breed out the warrior caste and leave faggots and women to run things
This.
About ten percent of boys, perhaps as much as twenty percent, are born with the genetic predisposition to be hyper-competitive.
With excellent parenting, they learn to harness that competitive drive and to excel.
Without good parenting they become frustrated and violent. They have poor impulse control, and if they develop a problem with authority or become angry and aggressive, they bounce in and out of prison until they are about 40. At that point they are either dead or they calm down.
There hasn't been a study, but I bet these guys make up a large percentage of top athletes, elite soldiers, surgeons etc. Professions that really call for a competitive drive benefit from these adaptions.
If you cull them out of the population you will lose your top soldiers etc.
That said, there is more to the behavior we are witnessing than just the Warrior Gene.
The first or the second part of my comment?
Exactly. It produces a large amount of evolutionary pressure.
Same for exposure to livestock and the need for seasonal planning.
during the Anglo-Saxon rise to order, something like 1 in 100 were hanged.
Funny you bring up Anglo-Saxon because those sounded like English accents. Maybe you are kinda the same