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" So the psychopaths, it transpires, have got it only half right after all. There’s no denying the harshness of existence, the brutal, sawn-off truth that it can, at times, be survival of the fittest out there. But this is not to say that it has to be that way. The meek, it turns out, really do inherit the earth. It’s just that along the way there are inevitably going to be casualties. ‘Do unto others’ has always been sound advice. But now, some 2,000 years later, thanks to Robert Axelrod and Anatol Rapoport, we’ve finally got the maths to prove it. "

Kevin Dutton , The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success


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Kevin Dutton quote : So the psychopaths, it transpires, have got it only half right after all. There’s no denying the harshness of existence, the brutal, sawn-off truth that it can, at times, be survival of the fittest out there. But this is not to say that it has to be that way. The meek, it turns out, really do inherit the earth. It’s just that along the way there are inevitably going to be casualties. ‘Do unto others’ has always been sound advice. But now, some 2,000 years later, thanks to Robert Axelrod and Anatol Rapoport, we’ve finally got the maths to prove it.