"Here we begin to see the downside of storytelling. What humans gain in their ability to cooperate with

each other, they lose in systemic security. A major downside to storytelling is that it makes it possible to

hunt humans psychologically rather than physically. Recall from the previous section that a hunter’s job

is to decrease their target’s Cost of Attack and increase their Benefit to Cost Ratio of Attack. Storytelling enables people to do this to other

people, often without attributability (i.e. no blood trail). With the right stories, people will forfeit their

physical power or lay down their arms. Sapiens can be domesticated by the stories they believe, and like

lambs, they will walk straight into slaughter. It's also possible to feed stories to human populations which

divide them and make them less likely to cooperate. They can be convinced via theology, philosophy, and

ideology to forfeit their physical strength for something which only exists only in their collective imagination"