Dubious Consent and the Architecture of Coercion

Dubious Consent and the Architecture of Coercion

An analysis of exploitation, civility, and social expectation By Laura Flores

To preface my analysis of the perpetuation of a system that not only supports but actively protects predators, I need to bring in several fundamental concepts that are based on science, including biology and psychology.

I. The Evolutionary Pivot: Mental Adaptation

The first concept has been wrongly associated with greater apes because religion wants to undermine the vulnerable of our population: Darwinism. The strongest example of “survival of the fittest” is seen in the Galapagos islands finch study. To quickly summarize, the food bioavailability on the islands directly influenced each finch generation, resulting in different sizes and shapes of beak based on the types of food available for a season. These mutations were made prominent because of the accelerated timeframe of life on the Galapagos islands.

Humans, on the other hand, are largely stagnant in biological evolution because of the historical evolution the species already went through that resulted in sentience and the use and invention of tools. Essentially, we have replaced biological evolution with the higher potential of Mental Adaptation. This is a form of social Darwinism where “Fitness” is measured by the clarity of one’s boundaries and the integrity of one’s logic.