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Handicap principle - Wikipedia
The handicap principle is a hypothesis proposed by the biologist Amotz Zahavi to explain how evolution may lead to "honest" or reliable signalling between animals which have an obvious motivation to bluff or deceive each other.[1][2][3] It suggests that costly signals must be reliable signals, costing the signaller something that could not be afforded by an individual with less of a particular trait. For example, in sexual selection, the theory suggests that animals of greater biological fitness signal this status through handicapping behaviour, or morphology that effectively lowers this quality. The central idea is that sexually selected traits function like conspicuous consumption, signalling the ability to afford to squander a resource. Receivers then know that the signal indicates quality, because inferior-quality signallers are unable to produce such wastefully extravagant signals.
By engaging in risky, life-threatening behavior like gang violence, armed robbery, drug offences etc thugmaxxers signal to foids that they have prime genetic material. Because if they didn't they would probably already be dead. Here the resource that is squandered is "safety", which is one of the most basic and important human needs. Repeatedly surviving dangerous encounters probably triggers an instinctual response in foids that can overcome even judgment based on looks. That is why it's so important to be NT and low inhib if you aren't good looking.