@WarnerCrocker @SecurityWriter My current take on the topic of motivations (this changes every decade or so) is that we're a bit oddly wired because we have the capacity for rational evaluation, but most of our tools for "mental modeling" are really there (evolution-wise) for social dynamic prediction and, at some lower level, prey prediction. We aren't incapable of empathy, but our capacity for it is heavily weighted by the very real survival need to fit into a community (a human alone is far more likely to perish than one in a group) and the fact the tools of understanding can also be used as weapons for deception and outmaneuvering.
We aren't inherently bad. We're just also not inherently good, and we don't always have the luxury of quiet contemplation to choose. We're very vulnerable to our environment enhancing our worst qualities, or our best. I have an old work friend who thinks often about people's behavior in terms of incentives: not what they rationally chose, but what they thought was going to happen given what they probably knew? It seems to work pretty well.
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