Early in the chapter, Dawkins brings up a very interesting strategy, or mentality which comes up whenever two animals of the same species fight each other.
Suppose that B and C were also rivals. I 
would have been doing C a favor by killing his rival, in spite of the fact that we are rivals as well. The one who would win the most from this situation would be C, who gets one of his rivals killed without having to participate in the event at all. He was indirectly benefitted. Dawkins then explains the subconscious reasoning that all animals have before they get into a fight: “… the decision whether or not to fight should ideally be preceded by a complex, in unconscious, cost benefit calculation. … during a fight, each tactical decision over whether to escalate the fight or cool has costs and benefits which could, in principal, be analyzed.” (Dawkins Pg. 69). I find this to be very true. Before somebody risks their lives by engaging in a fight, they automatically work out all the possibilities in order to end up being the beneficial of the situation. Everyone always seeks to be the letter C in the previously mentioned situation. This pre-programmed strategy, introduced by Maynard Smith, is called evolutionary stable strategy.
would have been doing C a favor by killing his rival, in spite of the fact that we are rivals as well. The one who would win the most from this situation would be C, who gets one of his rivals killed without having to participate in the event at all. He was indirectly benefitted. Dawkins then explains the subconscious reasoning that all animals have before they get into a fight: “… the decision whether or not to fight should ideally be preceded by a complex, in unconscious, cost benefit calculation. … during a fight, each tactical decision over whether to escalate the fight or cool has costs and benefits which could, in principal, be analyzed.” (Dawkins Pg. 69). I find this to be very true. Before somebody risks their lives by engaging in a fight, they automatically work out all the possibilities in order to end up being the beneficial of the situation. Everyone always seeks to be the letter C in the previously mentioned situation. This pre-programmed strategy, introduced by Maynard Smith, is called evolutionary stable strategy. 
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