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Old April 17th, 2006, 02:05 PM
Carey N Carey N is offline
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Default Re: Politeness Police

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you explicity restate that same point - without mentioning the cause for that behavior
The differentiation between "within-group" and "everyone else" is an instinctive component of human behavior, though it's heavily built upon by cultural evolution as well. I am inclined to agree with D S Wilson's argument that this feature of human behavior is actually a group-level adaptation. Social collectives in which members make a strong distinction regarding within vs. between group rules tend to replace social collectives that do not.
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