empathy is the understanding of placing oneself in another'…

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Repeatable interaction games have different optimal strategies than one off interaction games. Altruistic punishment is prohibitively costly if one doesn't take their turn to sacrifice in a repeat interaction game.

Players with asymmetric ability are

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playing with different future expected interactions. The powerful expecting less interactions.

Disdain for sacrifice from a position of strength is strong strategy, assuming one always maintains that strength. Unfortunately, the confidence to

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maintain that strength is infinitely greater than our ability to do so.

All philosophies, theories, beliefs and even facts & Laws are models to help us explain reality. Many are useful in many situations, Rand's objectivity certainly is. However

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they all have their assumptions that we must strive to understand if we wish to think and act wisely.

1 + 1 = 2 in the model of math. But not in the real world.