On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:02:19 EDT, IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote: > > >O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]" wrote: >>... we in the developed world are in an economic war... >> Aiding them is not in our economic self interest... >>For my part, I believe a boycott is in order. > >Every individual is in an economic war with every other individual on earth >for resources necessary for life. And every thing we do, every thought we >have, every decision we make is always in our own self-interest, whether >economic or otherwise and whether we realize it or not. This is the way life >works. If we don't learn how to co-operate and thus mutually survive, the >logical >extreme of this self-interested warfare is for there to be only one person >left alive who has killed everyone else. > I suspect that Freud, Dawkins, and Anatol Rappaport would all disagree with this conclusion, for their respective reasons.
Perhaps two persons. > ... It would seem that some form of >voluntary, mutual co-operation would be much better. There are many web sites >where one can freely learn about various economic and political theories. >Perhaps some browsing of them might also help in this regard. > Even the most doctrinaire evolutionists acknowledge the survival value of altruism. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
