Shouldn't evolution favour benevolent haunted houses?
I just finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and the dilapidated state of the house was puzzling. In lore, haunted houses fall into disrepair because people don't like living in them. In Hill's case, people try to starve the houses of victims. One can imagine how the house might crumble after a decade or two.
The odd thing about it is that the house isn't 100% malevolent. It offers quite a idealized existence for those who want it. So it's like any other ecosystem. The relationships between sentiences are predatorial, parasitic, symbiotic, synergistic, and/or other descriptors. Wouldn't purely malevolent houses drive themselves out of existence by falling into disrepair? Wouldn't houses that showcase their beneficial aspects get star treatment? Maybe people might even turn them into a business ventures with better prospects than cryogenic suspended animation. Heck, maybe the living will exploited the haunted!
What possibly rationale could there be for such a prevalence of malevolent haunted houses in the lore when evolutionary considerations would seem indicate that they would remove themselves from the haunted house gene pool?
P.S. Another movie in which a haunted house offers benefits at the end is "The Others". Though I'll never understand the reason Nicole did the deed that she did.
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I just finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and the dilapidated state of the house was puzzling. In lore, haunted houses fall into disrepair because people don't like living in them. In Hill's case, people try to starve the houses of victims. One can imagine how the house might crumble after a decade or two.
The odd thing about it is that the house isn't 100% malevolent. It offers quite a idealized existence for those who want it. So it's like any other ecosystem. The relationships between sentiences are predatorial, parasitic, symbiotic, synergistic, and/or other descriptors. Wouldn't purely malevolent houses drive themselves out of existence by falling into disrepair? Wouldn't houses that showcase their beneficial aspects get star treatment? Maybe people might even turn them into a business ventures with better prospects than cryogenic suspended animation. Heck, maybe the living will exploited the haunted!
What possibly rationale could there be for such a prevalence of malevolent haunted houses in the lore when evolutionary considerations would seem indicate that they would remove themselves from the haunted house gene pool?
P.S. Another movie in which a haunted house offers benefits at the end is "The Others". Though I'll never understand the reason Nicole did the deed that she did.
ghost
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Can you specify a story that you're asking about to prevent this question from being downvoted/closed? There's no one answer that will fit all haunted houses. (The answer may not even be generalizable within one story: in Harry Potter for example think boggarts, dementors, Peeves, the attic ghoul, the Hogwarts ghosts, Mrs. Black's painting, the Shrieking Shack—all are very different.)
– Laurel
2 mins ago
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I just finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and the dilapidated state of the house was puzzling. In lore, haunted houses fall into disrepair because people don't like living in them. In Hill's case, people try to starve the houses of victims. One can imagine how the house might crumble after a decade or two.
The odd thing about it is that the house isn't 100% malevolent. It offers quite a idealized existence for those who want it. So it's like any other ecosystem. The relationships between sentiences are predatorial, parasitic, symbiotic, synergistic, and/or other descriptors. Wouldn't purely malevolent houses drive themselves out of existence by falling into disrepair? Wouldn't houses that showcase their beneficial aspects get star treatment? Maybe people might even turn them into a business ventures with better prospects than cryogenic suspended animation. Heck, maybe the living will exploited the haunted!
What possibly rationale could there be for such a prevalence of malevolent haunted houses in the lore when evolutionary considerations would seem indicate that they would remove themselves from the haunted house gene pool?
P.S. Another movie in which a haunted house offers benefits at the end is "The Others". Though I'll never understand the reason Nicole did the deed that she did.
ghost
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I just finished watching The Haunting of Hill House, and the dilapidated state of the house was puzzling. In lore, haunted houses fall into disrepair because people don't like living in them. In Hill's case, people try to starve the houses of victims. One can imagine how the house might crumble after a decade or two.
The odd thing about it is that the house isn't 100% malevolent. It offers quite a idealized existence for those who want it. So it's like any other ecosystem. The relationships between sentiences are predatorial, parasitic, symbiotic, synergistic, and/or other descriptors. Wouldn't purely malevolent houses drive themselves out of existence by falling into disrepair? Wouldn't houses that showcase their beneficial aspects get star treatment? Maybe people might even turn them into a business ventures with better prospects than cryogenic suspended animation. Heck, maybe the living will exploited the haunted!
What possibly rationale could there be for such a prevalence of malevolent haunted houses in the lore when evolutionary considerations would seem indicate that they would remove themselves from the haunted house gene pool?
P.S. Another movie in which a haunted house offers benefits at the end is "The Others". Though I'll never understand the reason Nicole did the deed that she did.
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user2153235user2153235
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Can you specify a story that you're asking about to prevent this question from being downvoted/closed? There's no one answer that will fit all haunted houses. (The answer may not even be generalizable within one story: in Harry Potter for example think boggarts, dementors, Peeves, the attic ghoul, the Hogwarts ghosts, Mrs. Black's painting, the Shrieking Shack—all are very different.)
– Laurel
2 mins ago
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Can you specify a story that you're asking about to prevent this question from being downvoted/closed? There's no one answer that will fit all haunted houses. (The answer may not even be generalizable within one story: in Harry Potter for example think boggarts, dementors, Peeves, the attic ghoul, the Hogwarts ghosts, Mrs. Black's painting, the Shrieking Shack—all are very different.)
– Laurel
2 mins ago
Can you specify a story that you're asking about to prevent this question from being downvoted/closed? There's no one answer that will fit all haunted houses. (The answer may not even be generalizable within one story: in Harry Potter for example think boggarts, dementors, Peeves, the attic ghoul, the Hogwarts ghosts, Mrs. Black's painting, the Shrieking Shack—all are very different.)
– Laurel
2 mins ago
Can you specify a story that you're asking about to prevent this question from being downvoted/closed? There's no one answer that will fit all haunted houses. (The answer may not even be generalizable within one story: in Harry Potter for example think boggarts, dementors, Peeves, the attic ghoul, the Hogwarts ghosts, Mrs. Black's painting, the Shrieking Shack—all are very different.)
– Laurel
2 mins ago
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Can you specify a story that you're asking about to prevent this question from being downvoted/closed? There's no one answer that will fit all haunted houses. (The answer may not even be generalizable within one story: in Harry Potter for example think boggarts, dementors, Peeves, the attic ghoul, the Hogwarts ghosts, Mrs. Black's painting, the Shrieking Shack—all are very different.)
– Laurel
2 mins ago