[FRIAM] more Epstein fallout

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

So, the logic seems right.

 

But … just to take the Epstein case … doesn’t that presume that abusing women feels good?  

 

I just have never see how that works,  

 

In the marshland around where grew up, there were these enormous flies, with beaklike mouthparts for biting…Greenheads, they were called.  They used to come into our barn at night, and then congregate on the inside of the windows during the day, frantic to get out.  I once caught one and took its wings off to see what would happen.  I never did it again.  It didn’t feel good.  

 

So, either having great power over people changes the nature of what feels good, OR, there are some people for whom making others feel bad makes them feel good. I would say that these latter folks need to be quarantined.  And if keeping people from becoming wealthy is prophylactic, I say tax the daylights out of the rich.  

 

Nick 

 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:54 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] more Epstein fallout

 

Nick writes: 

 

“Why does the potentiality entail the desire? 

 I can plunge a dinner fork into the back of my hand, right now.  

 Surely, you don’t expect me to do so, just because I can.”

 

The premise is that people do things that feel good, and things that are apparently free from negative consequences.

Neither would be true with this use of a dinner fork.   It might feel good to plunge the dinner fork into the hand of an impolite dinner guest.   Whether that would be free of consequences would depend on the relative quality of your respective lawyers and the physical strength of your guest.  

 

Marcus

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