I can understand that, logically speaking, but it does not suffice to convince me. This is especially true because of the % of people who attempt suicide, don’t die, and say later it was a giant mistake and they regret it. I could imagine a world in which people were usually or even often wrong both about committing suicide and not committing suicide, but it seems to me like a lot of added complexity.
Evolution has many dials other than just emotional affect, and we would naively expect evolution to use all of them if it can.
I can understand that, logically speaking, but it does not suffice to convince me. This is especially true because of the % of people who attempt suicide, don’t die, and say later it was a giant mistake and they regret it. I could imagine a world in which people were usually or even often wrong both about committing suicide and not committing suicide, but it seems to me like a lot of added complexity.