Hussein -
I hear you... many of us are challenged to defend the name of our God
or our Faith or our gender or our cultural or genetic heritage or sexual
orientation or hair color or set of our jaw. Even when obviously (but
superficially?) motivated, these are false challenges and to accept them
is a fools game.
The shrill voices against Islam (or even "ahem" Mormons) are not
helping, even if some who act in it's name are doing horrific things.
Those who paint with a broad brush can only slop their own paint on
themselves...
From much distance at all, everyone else looks like "other".
I'm often disappointed with this list (myself included) that we invoke
the terms of Complexity Science but don't often take it anywhere.
Is there a game theoretic model, or more to the point, an agent model
based on game theoretic principles that might help to illuminate this
phenomenon? The phenomena of personal vs shared belief, sectarianism,
intolerance? Is there a small subset (in the spirit of the oft-cited
MOTH strategy for prisoner's dilemma) of the phenomena that can show a
bit of it?
- Steve
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