Canary in the Coal Mine - Day

Thursday, May 29, 2014

1:26PM

Alcohol as a social technology to check the trustworthiness of others

"When you go drinking with someone and both make fools of yourselves, you now have a mutual trust built on knowing things that most people don't know. That's also the purpose of hazing rituals in fraternities: you've seen each other do disgusting things, so you trust each other."

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