Exactly. If we were researching monkeys and one of those monkeys was inexplicably obsessed with hoarding all the bananas away from everyone else, even through violence, even though the pile of bananas obtained could dwarf the Pyramids of Giza, and they were all going bad anyway, while the other monkeys starved…
We’d say there’s something very, very wrong with that monkey.
But it wouldn’t get that far, because the rest of the troupe would exile that one or beat them to death to preserve the rest of the community.
Exactly. If we were researching monkeys and one of those monkeys was inexplicably obsessed with hoarding all the bananas away from everyone else, even through violence, even though the pile of bananas obtained could dwarf the Pyramids of Giza, and they were all going bad anyway, while the other monkeys starved…
We’d say there’s something very, very wrong with that monkey.
But it wouldn’t get that far, because the rest of the troupe would exile that one or beat them to death to preserve the rest of the community.