Four frames and a funeral: Commentary on Bermúdez (2022)

There is much to like in Bermúdez's analysis, yet it is incomplete and at times problematic for social decision making and, by extension, interpersonal conflict. Here I explain how four frames - gains, losses, me, we - operate in conjunction and how humans gravitate toward a "me-loss" frame that, without intervention, leads to a breakdown of cooperation and an arguably tragic funeral of the commons.