On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:20:09AM -0400, Paul B. Hartzog wrote: > Ex: > Sports teams compete on the playing field, > but they cooperate to maintain the sport itself (social interest, > labor laws, etc.)
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes! Both competition and cooperation are examples of participation in some containing set, function in some larger system. It takes two to tango, and you can't compete with me if I don't participate. On the other hand, I can't stop you from competing with me if I do participate, even if my participation is intended and viewed by me as cooperation, as when a well-meaning liberal goes on the Bill O'Reilly show thinking a "fair presentation of facts" will be persuasive. Units that participate in a system can be seen to compete or cooperate, much as we can perform arithmatic calculations by adding positive numbers or subtracting negative ones. Pardon me riffing here. rl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
