Stephen Pinker tells us this about persecuting and enemy: “Even if you prevail by killing him, you will have given his kin the goal of killing you in revenge. It stands to reason that initiating serious aggression in a symmetrical standoff is something a Darwinian creature must consider very, very carefully––a reticence experienced as anxiety or paralysis. Discretion is the better part of valor; compassion has nothing to do with it.
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