In those circumstances, heroic self-sacrifice to preserve a band of relatives might make evolutionary sense, since an individual's genes could still be passed on collaterally, through surviving members of the band.
This spreads an individual's genes collaterally, rather than directly, but is otherwise similar to his helping his own offspring.
Non-sex cells thus propagate their genes collaterally.
But the point of a criminal justice system in a civilised society is not the mental peace of those collaterally wounded by crime.
If the self-sacrificing individual is putting himself out for close relatives, then there is a fair chance that his behaviour will help to propagate his genes collaterally.
Guerrilla base is a cruder but still more effective camouflage, converting the collaterally damaged mothers and infants into armed men even before they are hit.The Bosnian war has produced its own crop of nonsense.
In practice, therefore, a country negotiating a trade agreement must measure the advantages it is willing to concede in terms of the benefits these concessions will provide collaterally to that third country which is the most competitive.
Many, but not all, of the voices are German – some deeply entangled in the machinations of the Reich (soldiers of every rank, a telephonist in Hitler's bunker, or Hitler himself), others are involved only collaterally: a postal official, a teenaged seminarian, a nameless woman queuing for water at the city pump.
In the long run, such attempts never succeed in preventing or reversing change; at best they preserve collaterally supposedly purer forms and styles for certain purposes and in certain contexts.
If you betray your friend, you are a sinner, no matter how foreordained or collaterally beneficial your sin.
Their challenge, English argues, was how to "convict Bulger without collaterally tarnishing the reputation of the system they represented".
