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Re:Get iCourage. The Rejection Therapy iPhone App is Here by maayank on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:06PM (#2013972)
"They have been honed by many, many iterations." For an environment and time that we no longer live in. Evolution honed our instincts for a reason, but this reasoning was good for jungles and savannas, not urban sprawls and concrete jungles.
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Re:Get iCourage. The Rejection Therapy iPhone App is Here by roc on Thursday December 16, 2010 @05:53PM (#2014208)
The danger being discussed above is that from other humans. I don't think people have changed nearly enough to call our instincts about them into question.
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Re:Get iCourage. The Rejection Therapy iPhone App is Here by maayank on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:32AM (#2015552)
You have now culture, law, education, and much more conditioning than 50000/100000/1000000 years ago. I would argue that much have changed regarding how other humans react to what we do.
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Re:Get iCourage. The Rejection Therapy iPhone App is Here by pavel_lishin on Thursday December 16, 2010 @06:14PM (#2014304)
So has this been debunked? http://tinyurl.com/2e7c24z
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