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Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Maybe it's a way to deny them agency and therefore moral responsibility for the results of their actions?

Do monkeys have morals? (Legitimate question.)

Well, they do show in-group preference.

Does that count?

I'd say yes.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Is this really manipulation or is it just sexual selection for bravery/aggression/dominance? Are the female monkeys being disingenuous with their attentions or are they sincere? When I read some of the criteria for manipulation on Wikipedia [0] it seems to me like a pretty high bar to show these sorts of behaviours in monkeys. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_manipulation

> Is this really manipulation or is it just sexual selection for bravery/aggression/dominance? What's the difference?

Sexual selection for traits that otherwise have no discernible survival benefit or even harm survival happens all over the animal kingdom. Selection for bravery/aggression/dominance at least has the potential benefit of defense. Calling this sort of selection 'manipulation' on the part of female monkeys is making an unwarranted and human biased value judgement.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Males have evolved to extract resources from the environment. Females have evolved to extract resources from males.

Low-substance comments about inflammatory topics, like this one, end up triggering flamewars, like this one. We're trying to avoid those on HN. They're boring—alternately flippant and nasty—and if the term 'stupid' has a local definition, this would be it.

There are other places on the internet where you can ply that art if you want to. If you want to continue to post to HN, please behold the damage you wrought and refrain from doing it again here.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Males have evolved to extract resources from the environment. Females have evolved to extract resources from males.

Second comment from the top, "Women are gold diggers." Screencapping this for when HN's users claim they don't make the tech space awful for women.

That's pure sample bias. You can support anything that way.

Which is not to say that this thread isn't bullshit.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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To a woman, a man is the main way in which she interacts with the physical environment.

And yet I bet not too many women interact with you.

You can't attack people personally here, no matter wrong they are. When encountering a trainwreck of a thread, like this one, please resist the temptation to make it worse.

If you see an egregious comment, you can flag it by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'flag' at the top.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Accusing him of being a sock-puppet and I'm going to assume the "armor" bit is either an allusion to "White Knighting" (Which is completely inaccurate here) or "Social Justice Warrior" which is an easy way for you to dismiss his views. Bravo.

In another comment he claims he's been in HN for eight years but this account is like 16 days old. It is a sock-puppet account.

That's a personal attack as well, and you've posted many other comments that break the HN guidelines. We ban users who do that, so please clean up your act.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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What the hell is going on here? Why are you being downvoted for politely asking for clarification?

Because the question is extremely stupid, he should take an extra 10 seconds and it should be obvious

This breaks the HN guidelines about civility. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it.

You should also have better manners than to presuppose "he" when speaking of a fellow user.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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You had to get your sock-puppet account for such a low effort comment?! Hope your armor isn't impairing your movement too much.

You're wrong. This is one of many of my (75j's) older accounts. Scroll up for more details on why you're wrong. Oh, and I don't need to white knight for anyone because I'm already married to an extremely attractive woman. How's life for you in that department?

We've banned this account for breaking the HN guidelines and will continue to ban your other ones if you don't start abiding by the rules.

It's also an abuse of this site to create batches of accounts to break the guidelines with. If you've been on HN for years, you ought to know these things.

Re: Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

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Males have evolved to extract resources from the environment. Females have evolved to extract resources from males.

Hahaha, you triggered some feminists and sensitive political correctness people. And here I thought Hackernews had become one of those disgusting safe spaces where you cannot say anything that could possibly offend a human on planet earth.

That's a misinterpretation of how HN works. We don't care about being political, we care about not being stupid. This thread is the stupidest one I've seen in months and, considering which months, that is impressive.

The rest of the internet has the opposite priority, so you don't lack for other places to post like this. Please don't do it here.

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