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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Crocodile who wrote (65690)11/3/2004 11:47:03 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
Kindness most certainly has its place in society and nature. I remember a fascinating article about modeling the viability of behavioral types using a surprisingly simple mathematical construct called the prisoner's dilemma. It asks whether an individual faced with a moral choice would cooperate or defect. Iterated long enough, it caused individual "operators" to die out or form communities. In the short term, frequent defectors made out like the bandits they were. The most robust communities are those in which the defectors had been largely rooted out. There were still defectors of course, and the luckiest among them built empires in a replay of 19th-century economics.

In real life, a balance need be struck. Pure cooperators become suckers. Aggressive defectors become mobsters. Most of us are somewhere in between, I imagine.
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