Respectfully, I think you are missing my point in a quite comprehensive way.
Perhaps others might weigh in on whether what I have said is clear (and, of course, whether they agree, etc.) I will refrain from further attempts at explanation until then.
Clearly I wasn’t engaging your point, I was clarifying my own point instead. So I don’t see how it would be evident whether I was missing your point or not.
There are these defectors, and for any reasonable person whose reaction to a cookie is to explicitly conceptualize the social consequences of possible responses to being presented with it, it should be clear that silently eating the cookie and not otherwise responding in any way is defection. There are groups where a different response is prevalent, though probably for reasons other than higher propensity for consideration of social consequences of their actions or different results of that consideration. Because of these hypotheses where apparent cooperation follows for obscure reasons, and apparent defection follows from seeing a cookie as just food, I don’t see how lack of apparent cooperation leads to any clear conclusions. (As an example of a point I chose not to engage.)
Respectfully, I think you are missing my point in a quite comprehensive way.
Perhaps others might weigh in on whether what I have said is clear (and, of course, whether they agree, etc.) I will refrain from further attempts at explanation until then.
Clearly I wasn’t engaging your point, I was clarifying my own point instead. So I don’t see how it would be evident whether I was missing your point or not.
There are these defectors, and for any reasonable person whose reaction to a cookie is to explicitly conceptualize the social consequences of possible responses to being presented with it, it should be clear that silently eating the cookie and not otherwise responding in any way is defection. There are groups where a different response is prevalent, though probably for reasons other than higher propensity for consideration of social consequences of their actions or different results of that consideration. Because of these hypotheses where apparent cooperation follows for obscure reasons, and apparent defection follows from seeing a cookie as just food, I don’t see how lack of apparent cooperation leads to any clear conclusions. (As an example of a point I chose not to engage.)