Showing is better than telling.
High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.
. . . art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
Selfishness is the root of great evil.
This was not an attack by a mentally deranged, lone-wolf gunman. This was not an 'un-Islamic' attack by a bunch of thugs - the perpetrators could be heard shouting that they were avenging the Prophet Muhammad. Nor was it spontaneous. It was planned to inflict maximum damage, during a staff meeting, with automatic weapons and a getaway plan. It was designed to sow terror, and in that it has worked.
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.