Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
Thomas> I refer you to the work of Brian Skyrms, on the evolution of the
Thomas> social contract, in which he shows that there are sensible
Thomas> evolutionary models in which human-style social altruism is the right
Thomas> evolutionary strategy.
We have had social systems where altruism as a social
evolutionary strategy has been for under 20 millennia; we have had
biological evolution sculpting inherent responses ever since the
primordial soup.
I stand by my assertion that human nature being the way it is,
true altruism, al la mother Teresa, is a marvelously rare
occurrence.
manoj
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I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly
if he has income and she is pattable. Ogden Nash
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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