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Originally Posted by LostInNerSpace
Life is a "greed based system", is it not?
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God, thank you. The amount of egotistical self righteousness I've seen is absurd. Every god damn thing you do as a human being is a CALCULATION of how you can benefit. Whether it's scratching your ass in the morning to remove that itch, lying to your mother about those low grades you got in school, or telling your fat boss that she looks beautiful. EVERYTHING you do is for your own benefit. THAT is a fundamental unchanged quality of human consciousness, and that consciousness will never give birth to anything that goes against that. To sit there and think that you are somehow different enough to come up with something that'd contradict that in any way, or that the general populace would ever concede to it is ludicrous.
Not to say that altruism cant exist in human beings, just that it does not take precedence in our thinking. What you are trying to do is come up with a "greed free" altruistic system, from the perspective of one being who is just as selfish as any other "greedy" capitalist.
I believe it was Einstein who said "Problems cannot be solved with the same level of consciousness that created them."