In Arab culture, for example, it means more “to make a statement” – a person states with his willpower that such and such axiom is true and he will live his life in accordance with it. From a scientific point of view it is nonsense, yet from evolutionary one seems rather beneficial. — stoicHoneyBadger
Why exactly is it beneficial? You say that it “seems” beneficial. Perhaps it is not. — praxis
Place Richard Dawkins and some Muslim on an island, come back in a week to see who's head was cut off. — stoicHoneyBadger
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