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Old 01-10-06 | 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by dolface
you'e got it backwards, we ARE greedy, and there's n+1 years of evolution making us that way. **** sapiens sapiens is greedy by design, and if you breed it out, then we're no longer **** sap.

(i grew up on commune, if that makes any difference)

/derail
What "design" are you talking about? Seems to me there are n+1 years (more than 6,000, or whatever Pat Robertson's current number is, anyway) of evidence to the contrary, which is to say that if people were "naturally" selfish, there would have been absolutely no way the species could've survived thousands of years of scarcity, managed to propagate, developed advanced societies, and then build a class system in which the greediest rise to the top, then rewrite natural history to claim that, in fact, this is how it was all along, that capitalism in fact is the highest expression of some innate human trait, when in fact it's just as transitory a period as all those before it.

To keep this in the appropriate forum, anyway, I think a sticky would be fine, almost like a "ss/fg approved thread" as opposed to some unreliable garbage from quasi-people with dished rear wheels and more than two cables on their horses.
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