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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Positive feedback on negative actions

Somehow there seems to be more likelihood of a run-away process
effect for negative events in human societies. What I am trying to
say is that if one or a small group of humans behave badly (i.e. in a
way that is disruptive to the rest of the society/camp) then rest of
them try to adopt that quickly. This can be seen in unsanitary habits
in poor neighborhoods. However would the rest of the crowd take to
cleaning up if one guy started cleaning up. Maybe, Maybe not, I am
not too sure. Am I becoming more of a pessimist in terms of expecting
good from human behavior in a group setting.

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