[ninetyninenine]

People often ignore evolutionary psychology. You should ask the question why do humans have these bad traits and tendencies? Because these traits helped us dominate in the game of the survival of the fittest.

Yes Grahams two cents here makes sense, but always talk about why the trait from an evolutionary perspective even exists. It exists because it worked for a certain context and was good for millions of years. Explain why it doesn't work for this new context.

Instead all I hear is people calling certain traits bad and explaining how we should live life like suppressing all these traits that took millions of years to evolve.

[naveen99]

It’s just bad luck and survival instinct. Stubborn genes end up in a position of power and then they cling to it. For a stupid, stubborn king, it’s sometimes easier (more selfish, evolutionary fit) to just kill the intelligent court advisor or jester than to acknowledge mistakes and give up power for the benefit of the state. In a game of thrones, absolute reason gives in to back stabbing. Also beauty and strength sometimes don’t have the patience for intelligence and outsource it or kill it if it gets in the way of self propagation.

[ninetyninenine]

doubtful. Stubbornness is so common that's it's unlikely to have a roundabout reason for why it exists.

[naveen99]

Royalty used to have lot of children…

[ninetyninenine]

Yeah but common peasants have tons too. There was no birth control back then.

The common peasant should dominate the gene pool given the massively larger proportion relative to royalty.

But I’m just making conjecture here as much as you. Who knows? you could be right.