[ExI] anger

[Darin Sunley]

Those are the two options evolution gave to all mammals, but the runaway
positive feedback loop caused by intra-tribal politics that gave us
enormous frontal cortexes gave us third and fourth options:

Get angry, smile, be friendly for a little while, and stab the threat in
the back when it's not looking.

Get angry, walk away slowly, and apply a sniper rifle bullet to the
threat's center of mass from a safe distance.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:17 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:03 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> *> I don’t see how fear and anger are opposite.*
>
>
> If you suddenly spot a dangerous threat Evolution gave you two options,
> get angry, run towards it and fight it, or become fearful, run in the
> opposite direction and hide from it.
>
> John K Clark
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