The biggest question is how does being good at enforcing norms provide a reproductive advantage. It seems like the benefits of co-ordination are distributed, but the costs are concentrated.
I’m wildly speculating here, but perhaps enforcing norms is a costly signal to others that you are a trustworthy person, meaning that in the long-term you gain more resources than others who don’t behave similarly.
The biggest question is how does being good at enforcing norms provide a reproductive advantage. It seems like the benefits of co-ordination are distributed, but the costs are concentrated.
You could selectively enforce norms as a tool in political conflict (this is the most plausible story to me).
I’m wildly speculating here, but perhaps enforcing norms is a costly signal to others that you are a trustworthy person, meaning that in the long-term you gain more resources than others who don’t behave similarly.
Yeah, but only if they also understand the norms you are enforcing.
Many norm violations have specific victims.
Yes, and it helps the victims, but how does the person who enforces the norms gain a reproductive advantage?