You seem to be justifying many antisocial behaviors such as bigotry, as a possible ‘natural’ Identifier strategy, and locally valuable and therefore defensible as a human behavior. Does that make sense?
What is meant by ‘make sense’? If you mean does it make sense biologically or evolutionarily, it certainly could. If you mean does it make sense that society should accept behavior that is contrary or destructive to society members simply because it may be advantageous to an individual, of course the answer is, no. The phrasing, like peoples reactions to many human behavioral theories, is imprecise and often suggests a vested perspective that will be a barrier to any explanation whether it makes sense in the first instance, or not. Certainly bigotry for example, is natural – it is ubiquitous. That does not make it any more acceptable than pneumonia, another natural and ubiquitous condition. And certainly, the incidence of bigotry can be affected by the environment. The central appreciation is that if we recognize that bigotry fundamentally originates by a specific non-environmental process, then we are more likely to develop systems to affirmatively affect that behavioral outcome, than
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