pardon me, but what has this to do about linux?? Its sad, the same reason we help people is often the same reason that we end up in intellectual pissing matches like this...
a feeling of superiority.... so we end up in discussions using bigger and bigger words.. and achiving nothing... Its pointless and useless... why bother??? lets all be friends and concentrate on spreading the linux word shall we? rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robin Turner Sent: Friday, 13 December 2002 3:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] just a comment Meliton wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:31, Charlie wrote: [snip] >>Or is egoism >>as an answer appearing as to flip, to simplistic to fit the record? > > > "Egoism" is just a word, I use it a lot because it shocks some people > into not lying to themselves. Too few people. And I do believe that we > all act strictly according to our interests, though not as rational > beings (which we are NOT). Those interests may be (often are) hidden > from us, and we often act in ways that harm us (drugs...) or seem > altruistic (sharing your knowledge of Linux ;). But absolutely every act > of every human being in History, including all the moving ones of > self-sacrifice, are for the actor's benefit. I'm not being cynical here. > How can you irrationally act in your own interests? You seem to equate interests with benefits with desires, which is certainly a tenable position, and has the virtue of simplicity, but then may include genuinely altruistic behaviour - if I desire to help people more than I desire to act on what an econmist would class as my interests, I will do so, and in your terms, I am acting in my interests. Sir Robin
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