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Old 11-22-2011, 11:12 AM   #14
Spexxvet
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I'm pretty sure cultural stagnation with a resultant collapse of civilization is what you'd get if everyone were "cooperative". No risks would be taken and no progress would be made. We'd have a nice little world for bureaucrats and government approved academics. Everyone else would be subjected to failing prospects and falling incomes, much like we're getting now with the corporate government complex, but with more hopelessness.
Seriously, though, cooperation does not mean the absence of aggression and selfishness, just a willingness to strive for a win/win solution.

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In all of recorded human history, armageddon is always predicted and has never happened.
YET!
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