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RE: Why has antisocial behavior evaded the scythe of natural selection?

in #science7 years ago

Thank you for your reply.

self and paid voting is not necessarily "abusive".

I agree with this. It's not necessarily abusive, but it can be. For this article, I was thinking just about the subset of that behavior that is abusive.

I also agree that the definition of the word "antisocial" is sort of slippery, but I was thinking of predatory forms of behavior that go beyond ignoring social amenities to actively harming others. The Colman & Wilson paper was a study of Anti-social personality disorder, which has a specific psychiatric definition (listed in their paper), but of course my article did have a broader focus.