<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Wojtek Sokolowski</b> <<a href="mailto:sokol@jhu.edu">sokol@jhu.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>[WS:] Au contraire, the "stupid" stipulation would be quite boring. I<br>stipulated something rather different and more fun - that people tend to<br>follow established paths, group norms and expectations they create. This is
<br>a smart thing under most circumstances - it reduces transaction cost of<br>decision making.</blockquote><div><br>[jm;] Oh you did no such thing. You only back tracked later. You posited that people were "sheep-like", "herd-like" and "flock-like". All notions when applied to human beings implies stupidity.
<br></div></div>And then you posited that this "sheep-like", "herd-like" and "flock-like" behaviour was biologically developed and your social darwinist prejudices were offerred as proof. <br>