Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id LAA15536 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:48:00 GMT Message-ID: <000d01c19c28$72d26320$79a6bed4@default> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be> To: "memetics" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: CRASH CONTAGION Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:49:14 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@cogeco.ca>
> > People *often* die in heroic acts. And it make no difference if you or
I
> > think he was doing something stupid, what is important to understand his
> > actions from an evolutionary psychology viewpoint is how he felt about
it.
>
> Hi Keith, sorry for the delay. Got a lot to do and still there is more
> waiting,
> anyway, what you wrote above and can agree with. That is exactly the
> main point ! All the rest is due to speculation.
>
> > >Obtaining attention and a wife were not the boys
> > >motives to crash a plane in a building !
> > I disagree. A substantial fraction of what people do is directed toward
> > gaining status. Those actions led directly to reproductive success
(most
> > of the time and in a tribal environment).
>
> << Yes, of course, but such assumption can' t be applied here !
> What did the boy exept !? To live and tell about it !?
> To get a wife and tell his children and grandchildren about his heroic
> exploits !?
> To get any reproductive success out of killing himself !?
> Status seems logical to me, he, maybe earned a footnote in history, but
that
> will be all.
>
> > >Setting fire to a nearby wood would not have giving the same impact
> > >than crashing a plane in a building !
> > >Teens imitate teens, remerber ! Nurture by the kin- group is far more
> > >important than the teaching of the eldery, parents, bin Laden or other-
> > >wise !
> >
> > Maybe, but the note found on him was clear about bin Laden.
>
> << Yes, to give himself the credit of having an attitude, to give any
> meaning
> of importance, to make a ' statement ' ! But what is the real meaning of
> such writings !? Kids do, and say the darnest things. I do understand
that,
> we the eldery, do not listen to what kids have to say, we don 't see the
> cries
> for help which kids throw at us, but on the other hand, and that is my
view,
> some cries are indeed very real, are legitimate, but don 't throw away the
> child out of the kid !! Some kids do stupid things, but there is no reason
> to look for deeper meanings. We think we have to, to understand the kids,
> and that is maybe our mistake !!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
>
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