You're Optimizing for Survival Over Prestige or Status

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In fights where one person is clearly bigger than the other, I've noticed that people are more lenient as far as how harshly they'll judge the smaller combatants. And so, yeah, on the one hand, you're optimizing for survival over prestige or status. But at the same time, depending on the context, it begins someone who's much larger than you and you still manage to prevail. You know, even if you've bent the rules a little bit, it's still like, okay, that was still impressive regardless.

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.

Men fight. Sometimes they look silly when they fight. But they also collaborate and team up to take on common enemies. Women fight in very different ways that are less obvious, but no less vicious, and they sometimes try to even scupper their own teammates.

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