The Security Dilemma

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A society can toler one to three % of these people, ah, and still function pretty well. We're not descended from the people who fought themselves into the ground. But if you invent the social tools that that reduce warfare, you are more efficient as a group. You could do some of that. O the o hobsean trap, as it's called, as you just described it, i got to have it cause he has it. I'm a nice guy. Maybe he's a nice guy, but i don't know for sure. He's a nice guy,. so i better armejust case, and so on. Yes, that's a gerat fit right?

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