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Is sarcasm biologically advantageous?
>It is an enjoyable form of humor and stress-release.
>It is highly successful in verbal form with tonal and contextual cues.
>It is less successful in textual form (lacking tonal cues)
>Discrepancy in form reveals an implicit characteristic that one does not wish to explicitly reveal they are being sarcastic WHILE being sarcastic.
How signifigant is this characteristic of implicicity to its role as a reproductive and survivability variable?

>> No.10625587

>>10624967
it's criticism with an escape hatch: you can always say you weren't serious

>> No.10626066

What an interesting thread.

>> No.10626124

>>10624967
At best it's related to the whole social hierarchy game. People want to mate with the best, and you can be the best by fighting or arguing, so arguing becomes a battle not for truth but of wits. Sarcasm and lying become useful tools in the battle for reproductive rights.

>> No.10627808

>>10626124
cool idea anon fr, not like you came up with it I mean, but thanks for the reminder

also op, I like how you articulate ideas.

also im not from reddit I'm an oldfag, just trying to be nice sometimes