{"id":279,"date":"2002-01-22T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2002-01-22T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/01\/22\/279.html"},"modified":"2002-01-22T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2002-01-22T16:42:28","slug":"the-urge-to-punish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/01\/22\/the-urge-to-punish\/","title":{"rendered":"The urge to punish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(But first, a followup to my previous entry: my kitchen is not flooded.  Whew.)<\/p>\n<p>Was talking with Karen the other night about Rules and the urge to punish those who violate them; and then this morning what should appear in my email but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/01\/22\/science\/social\/22CHEA.html\"><cite>New York Times<\/cite> article<\/a> which claims that the urge to punish those who break rules (more specifically, those who cheat, but I think it amounts to roughly the same thing) is not only natural but itself a form of altruism (because it sometimes costs the punisher a great deal to do the punishing).  I don't know that I buy the arguments put forth in the article&#8212;I'm particularly skeptical of the sociobiological argument that claims that altruism and other civilized social behaviors could not have evolved without the punishment-of-cheaters urge&#8212;but the experiment described (a game in which cooperation turned out to work much better if people had a means of punishing cheaters) is an interesting one.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(But first, a followup to my previous entry: my kitchen is not flooded. Whew.) Was talking with Karen the other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}