Interesting article from the NY Times on spite. Due to my celtic disposition, spite has always interested me, but I try not to go there.
"Psychologists are exploring spitefulness in its customary role as a
negative trait, a lapse that should be embarrassing but is often
sublimated as righteousness, as when you take your own sour time pulling
out of a parking space because you notice another car is waiting for it
and you’ll show that vulture who’s boss here, even though you’re
wasting your own time, too.
Evolutionary theorists, by contrast, are studying what might be viewed
as the brighter side of spite, and the role it may have played in the
origin of admirable traits like a cooperative spirit and a sense of fair
play."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/01/science/spite-is-good-spite-works.html?_r=0
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