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Its OK that you dont understand. Its in keeping with your pattern.
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Nope, I am just saying competition exists, and always will. Thats it.
Oh, I know what you were saying. I see you.
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Nope, I am just saying competition exists, and always will. Thats it.
I am being sarcastic. My impression of Ceecee's tone is rude, and insulting. She clearly dislikes me, but constantly quotes me. So what do you do in that position? S
Competition was meant to make any moral prerequisites a mute point.
It was the whole of what Adam Smith was saying with that oft quoted idea about it was "not from benevolence" that the butcher, baker, candlestick maker produced their wares for market.
If you can't find any evidence of competition in nature my friend, I dare say you're not looking. Like, at anything. At all.What modern times? Who are these "lot of people" and when did they make this argument? I dont remember reading it lately. I read a lot of people saying the opposite. Constantly. Unfortunately, as with this post, they are not good at supporting it with any sort of evidence. I really do not see how a pandemic is a vindication of competition or the extreme notion that you join with competition or die or that this extreme notion is a foundation of life. Perhaps you can elaborate. I dont think pandemic is fun or sport to be honest. Perhaps that is not what you meant. Sport surely is an example of competition which does not in any way resemble the extreme notion of compete or die.
They've all got bills to pay.....Imo, you take the morality out of any system and then it won't work anymore. Do you agree?
If you can't find any evidence of competition in nature my friend, I dare say you're not looking. Like, at anything. At all.
Competing with viruses is not fun. I was referring more to competitions we get to more consciously participate in.
Have we tried making covid19 illegal yet?Most Social Darwinists: "I'm for unfettered competition unless I lose."
Your impression of Ceecee's tone was rude and insulting? How do you tell the tone of a post online? How did you form that impression?
Is it clear that she dislikes you?
I don't know. Between the insults and belittleing, it is kinda obvious no?
Also, where have you been? Did you take a break?
Gets boring reading the same baffling attempts to revive bad thinking that was old when I was young.
Plus a lot of it is trolling and trojans for God knows what, so, you know gets very tedious and dull.
You think Cercee is trolling me?
Humans are naturally competitive, as are all creatures. If you took away the need for competition, what do you think would happen? Would humans become indolent and decadent, or would they become something entirely different?
It sounds like you are implying that because humans are naturally competitive that either we allow all competition or none at all. But there can be healthy competition and unhealthy competition. Such as humans competing for a limited food supply where people have to fight over who will die versus humans competing on how to get everyone enough food; there can be unhealthy competition where a large business creates economic shortage by finding ways to kill off all competition and monopolize a market versus healthy competition where many companies can thrive in the same market and provide the most overall economic surplus, even if one is more successful than another.
So yes, I agree with you that humans are naturally competitive and that we shouldn't just take that away. But we should learn to decipher and take away the unhealthy competition. It's a much more humanistic and rational approach. And we can most certainly do both.
It sounds like you are implying that because humans are naturally competitive that either we allow all competition or none at all. But there can be healthy competition and unhealthy competition. Such as humans competing for a limited food supply where people have to fight over who will die versus humans competing on how to get everyone enough food; there can be unhealthy competition where a large business creates economic shortage by finding ways to kill off all competition and monopolize a market versus healthy competition where many companies can thrive in the same market and provide the most overall economic surplus, even if one is more successful than another.
So yes, I agree with you that humans are naturally competitive and that we shouldn't just take that away. But we should learn to decipher and take away the unhealthy competition. It's a much more humanistic and rational approach. And we can most certainly do both.
Competition is a strong motivator and depending on the ethical nature of the person, it can be a force for good or evil. Other, more highly evolved individuals, don't need competition to motivate them. I read a book about a doctor who'd spend most of his waking life helping people. He'd give his patients his personal telephone number and he'd spend hours after work just thinking about how to help people. People like this doctor don't need competition to motivate them; his love of learning and helping people drives him and gives his life meaning.