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" If you murder someone in another clan, your fellow clan members will be responsible for paying blood money to the victim’s clan, and the size of this payment won’t depend on whether you killed the guy by accident—your arrow deflected off the deer you were hunting—or by executing a carefully planned homicide. Moreover, if your clan doesn’t pay the prescribed blood money, the victim’s clan will hold all members culpable and seek revenge by killing someone from your clan without regard to the victim’s intentions. By contrast, when ripped from the binding ties of their relational networks, an actor’s intentions, goals, and beliefs become much more important. "

Joseph Henrich , The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous


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Joseph Henrich quote : If you murder someone in another clan, your fellow clan members will be responsible for paying blood money to the victim’s clan, and the size of this payment won’t depend on whether you killed the guy by accident—your arrow deflected off the deer you were hunting—or by executing a carefully planned homicide. Moreover, if your clan doesn’t pay the prescribed blood money, the victim’s clan will hold all members culpable and seek revenge by killing someone from your clan without regard to the victim’s intentions. By contrast, when ripped from the binding ties of their relational networks, an actor’s intentions, goals, and beliefs become much more important.