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The War on Terror
After 10 years the war on terror is far from the end. In
fact, despite all the efforts the world is not becoming any
safer. Contrary, there are some articles indicating that
military solutions are inappropriate [1, 2]. These articles
analyze short-term effects resulting from capturing or
killing a terrorist on his friends, family members,
supporters etc. Author’s model [2] predicts rapid increase
in number of passive supporters as a result of counter
terrorist activities that lead to collateral damages.
Theory of Asymmetry provides insight about what kind of
people can be found in 3 groups mentioned in the article
(terrorist groups, passive supporters of terrorism and
immune subpopulation resistant to any radical influence) and
predicts the long-term effects of war and stress on these
groups’ dynamics.
Male (M) – female (F) and cis
(C) –
trans (T) phenotypes are formed by sex hormones.
Androgens (A),
which draw the system closer to the environment, are
responsible for male and cis configuration, and
estrogens (E), which move the system away from the
environment, are responsible for female and trans
configuration.
TEFE
TEMA CAFE
CAMA
Hormonal sex gets
increased when both hormonal vectors are added (E + E,
sort of like “super females”, and A + A – “super
males”) and relaxed when they are subtracted (A – E, E -
A). As a result the groups TEFE
and CAMA are further polarized, and
the groups TEMA and CAFE
will get closer to each other. Variation within the CAMA
group will also increase.
According to the theory cis-males group (~8% of all
population) has highest phenotypic variation compare
to other groups (cis-females
and trans-males, with trans-females been the
lowest). Outliers of the curve (~0.5% from each side
of the curve – ~1 %) are the “groups of risk”
(Figure: Black parts of the curve). This outliers
form rare phenotypes
of all the unique and active personalities in various
fields.
Fig.
Generalized environmental rule.
Birth-rate and variance of
phenotypes: trans-females,
trans-males, cis-females, cis-males.
The lines of separation: 1 - by gender, 2 – by
cis-trans
configuration. The directions of the
changes in the optimal (opt) and extreme (extr)
environment. Modal part of the Cis-male curve ~ 7%, dispersed ~ 0.5% each
According to the
“Ecological rule of sexual differentiation”
(The Evolutionary Theory of Sex)
in extreme
environmental conditions when
high mortality of males is observed, the
birth rate of boys should increase ("turnover" of males
increase).
Theory of asymmetry also predicts an increase in left-handers birth rate in
all cases of environmental and psychological stress and
discomfort: among racial, ethnic hybrids, at high-altitude,
seismic, ecologically troubled areas, after earthquakes,
wars, genocide, starvation, relocations and other natural
and social changes.
This combined shift is represented by two black arrows
(Figure).
Generalized ecological rule explains the regulation of
behavioral dominance. In an optimal environment increases
the role of conservative subsystems (females, the right
hemisphere, the left hemisphere dominance, and
trans-individuals). And in the extreme environment, on the
contrary, the operative trends start to prevail (males, the
left hemisphere, right hemisphere dominance, and cis-individuals).
Is it possible to destroy the terrorists by war? The
principle of "turnover" says: "The higher mortality of
left-handed men, the higher will be their birth rate." So,
military solutions seem inappropriate from both short- and
long-term perspectives.
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[1] S. Galam, A.
Mauger “On reducing terrorism power: a hint from physics”.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.2003,
v. 323, p. 695–704.
[2] F.
August, P. Blanchard, S. Delitzscher, G. Hiller, T. Krueger
“Passive
Supporters of Terrorism and Phase Transitions.” 2010.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1953
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