Deserving of thought and study, but risks going down the evpsych path of cute but useless “just so stories”.
Attachment to friends (and for many, to cars) is more complex than this—you have to include signaling (and self-image-signaling), and way more options than “invest or replace”.
I agree with what you say but feel like it’s the wrong kind of response for a post marked as speculative epistemic status. For such posts I think it’s fair to assume that the author knows they are over-simplifying and is just wanting to see where the idea goes.
Deserving of thought and study, but risks going down the evpsych path of cute but useless “just so stories”.
Attachment to friends (and for many, to cars) is more complex than this—you have to include signaling (and self-image-signaling), and way more options than “invest or replace”.
I agree with what you say but feel like it’s the wrong kind of response for a post marked as speculative epistemic status. For such posts I think it’s fair to assume that the author knows they are over-simplifying and is just wanting to see where the idea goes.