Sam Vaknin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Feb
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The normal thing in the animal kingdom is to kill your parents.
It is only with the advent of civilization that we have created restraints and constraints and inhibitions and laws and regulations and, you know, self-control and self-discipline, mores and ethics and norms and the Bible and you name it.
This is a veneer.
This is a very thin veneer.
It's about, what, 5,000 years old maybe?
And so if you look at it from a statistical point of view,
Our behavior as a species, where we refrain from killing our parents, is a very, very late addition to evolution and highly aberrant or highly abnormal in the big picture of things.
It takes a long time to raise a human child.
And if parents know that they are about to be assassinated once the job is over, then they will simply not engage in it.
From the point of view of the species, it behooves us to not get rid of our parents, at least not violently.
And, well, you know, there are other ways.
And the reason is we want to motivate them to parent.
We want to motivate them to act as parents.
Now, the human cub, the human baby... Mm-hmm.
requires an inordinate amount of time, according to some scholars, 31 years, maybe 25 years, according to Twenge and Campbell, and at the very least 18 years, according to most legal systems.
So it takes decades to raise the human baby.
and bring it to the level of an adult.
In some cases, majority of cases, this fails.
But, okay, so it requires a lot of investment.
Now, how would we motivate people to invest in raising up children?
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