@mcjulie I mean, what I’m suggesting is more that this is an adaptive, wired-in capacity in everyone, but is primarily adaptive because it’s not switched on all the time in most people. (Loosely speaking, we tend to consider a person mentally ill or “toxic” when it is.) @mcjulie Which, since it’s a coping mechanism for stressful, under-attack conditions, suggests there exist social conditions where it’d be switched on all the time. Say, growing up in one or another form of privation: the economically dead steel town, the evangelical community..