[MUD-Dev] Decision making...

[Matt Mihaly]

Rayzam wrote:
> "Byron Ellacott" <bje at apnic.net> wrote:

>> Perhaps not about mother nature, but fairness is an important
>> aspect of primate life.  Primates, along with a large number of
>> other species, owe their survival to their communities, and
>> individuals who cannot participate in that community will soon be
>> pushed out of it -- where they will be weak, and easy prey.  An
>> individual who does not 'play fair' with other members of its
>> community is a prime candidate for being pushed out.

> Hierarchies in primate social groups have nothing to do with
> fairness.  Larger, more powerful, scarier, better fighters, etc,
> are the alpha males.  They run their social group. They get the
> food they want, they get the females they want, they get what they
> want, when they want it. They smack around others who get in the
> way, and put the rest of the hierarchy in its place. There's
> nothing fair about this. Beta males also get food and females, but
> only when the alpha's needs are met. Often in fact, their sexual
> needs are met by the submissive males. There is often a secondary
> hierarchy of the females. In these hierarchies and social groups,
> there is not much fairness.

Not just primates. Welcome to the human world as well, where weak
beta males "lose" in the workplace, in the sexual arena, and so
on. Less pronounced than in the primate world, but still very
prevalent.

--matt
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