As argued previously, ideational construals, including the interpretations of experiments, are selected according to their fit with the interpersonal values of the community doing the modelling. Many complementary fears/desires motivate the sorts of models of humanity that are both generated, and then selected for or against by a community. The common motif among them is the fear that humanity is unimportant, not special, the desire for humanity to be important, special. A covert assumption is that values such as ‘important’ or ‘special’ are absolute/objective/real, rather than imposed by the humans involved.