It's possible that the fitness of various personality oddities depends not only on the nature of the local culture but on the frequency of those oddities. I once considered that all societies contain the devout, the believers, the doubters, the unbelievers, the scoffers, the mockers, and the blasphemers with regard to religion. This desp…
It's possible that the fitness of various personality oddities depends not only on the nature of the local culture but on the frequency of those oddities. I once considered that all societies contain the devout, the believers, the doubters, the unbelievers, the scoffers, the mockers, and the blasphemers with regard to religion. This despite that one's degree of religiousity has a strong genetic component. But it's possible that it's a "balanced polymorphism", there are optimal proportions in a smoothly-working society and there's a selective advantage for being a type that happens to be under-supplied in your local situation. (Society needs a lot of believers in order to be smoothly-working but it also needs freethinkers to get around beliefs that happen to be counterproductive in unusual situations.)
It's possible that the fitness of various personality oddities depends not only on the nature of the local culture but on the frequency of those oddities. I once considered that all societies contain the devout, the believers, the doubters, the unbelievers, the scoffers, the mockers, and the blasphemers with regard to religion. This despite that one's degree of religiousity has a strong genetic component. But it's possible that it's a "balanced polymorphism", there are optimal proportions in a smoothly-working society and there's a selective advantage for being a type that happens to be under-supplied in your local situation. (Society needs a lot of believers in order to be smoothly-working but it also needs freethinkers to get around beliefs that happen to be counterproductive in unusual situations.)