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• ARNOLD commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
  " ... but they seem to not apply the same logic to people with abnormal emotions. " And what do you call, Abnormal as in ' .. Abnormal emotions ' pitiful Human? How does NORMAL emotion contribute to the Dominant Culture that States that Greed IS GOOD!! Will lack of Abnormal Emotion help MY Family Sept and Tribe thrive and grow to dominate the SEVAGRAM? If not then what use is it?...
• ARNOLD commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
  I don’t know about these ' Republicans ' of which you speak - which Republic is this? Ancient Roman ?US of American? - But " economists, sociopaths," seem to thrive and breed at a ferocious rate so their character traits, and the genetic endowment/cultural nutriment from which they spring must have some sort of survival value don’t you think?...
• dirk.bruere commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
  Yes, just like the peacock's feathers. Unfortunately it is a liability under changed circumstances ie when they meet the flying tigers....
• scentofviolets commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
  Hmmmm . . . would the Vile Offspring in Accelerando be zimboes? Zombies? Something else? I'm including the 'cat', of course :-)...
• ilya187 commented on Do Zimboes dream of Electric Sheep?
  Perhaps because you don't tend to see people with Down's syndrome ending up as CEOs or presidential candidates... Or as tribal warlords. People are trying to find evolutionary advantage to sociopathy because it happens to be... well... evolutionarily advantageous. Sociopaths, or at least male sociopaths, do have a demonstrable breeding advantage in both modern and pre-modern societies. Whether it is heritable is an open question....