This seems like it maps well onto the Prisoner's Dilemma.
I like the Punnett Square analysis technique. I use that to think through lots of stuff besides genetics too.
As I think through this, I find myself wanting to convert it to a "cost/benefit" analysis and in each interaction we can either "get along and share equally" or we can "fight it out and winner take all".
It would be the same Punnett Square analysis except you'd have both V and R in each quadrant. In 3 of the 4 quadrants, R is 0 for both parties. Likewise, in 3 of the 4 quadrants, V is 100% to the victor. Given those "outcome sets" for those variables, I think it makes most sense to do cost as the numerator (R) and benefit as the denominator (V).
In the 3 Dove quadrants, you'd have Cost/Benefit ratios of 0.
In the Hawk v Hawk quadrant, if R is the total "damage" from the fight, the "winner Hawk" will have a Cost of somewhere between 0 and R/2 whereas the "loser Hawk" will have a Cost of somewhere between R/2 and R. Winner Hawk will get V and loser Hawk will get 0.
Arguably Hawk v Dove is just an edge case of Hawk v Hawk in which the fight is over instantaneously. Likewise, every Hawk v Hawk devolves eventually into Hawk v Dove when a victor is decided.
Spiritually speaking, the person acting in accordance with Divine traits would be so apparently powerful that no one would "choose" Hawk mode when interacting with you, while also having the mercy to split the value of the resources with people who are less powerful than you.
On the Tree of Life in Kabbalah, this would essentially be the embodiment, balancing, and merger of Geburah (Severity aka Power) and Chesed (Mercy).
In the context of cosmological symbolism, hawk, dove, eagle, feathered serpent, dragon...they all are pointing at flight in an homage to the "feather of Ma'at" from Egypt. If your soul was LIGHTer than a feather, you moved on to the afterlife.
Symbolically, the only thing "lighter than" (higher than) birds are sources of light like the sun, moon, and stars.
It's all symbolic tips of the cap to having all chakras activated, i.e. being enlightened.
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Yes, it does map to the prisoners delimma now that you mention it. Specifically a Stockholm Syndrome prisoners delimma.
A "no matter where you go, there you are" type of prison delimma.
I think this goes here also.
