Phat writes:
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Survival by its very nature is all about self interest, family interest, or national interest over that of inclusion of others.
Only in a naive sense. A more comprehensive understanding comes to the conclusion that when you help others, you help yourself.
You need to hie yourself to the science library and pick up some mathematics textbooks on game theory.
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The thinking that you seem to advocate is a sort of global unity, whereupon humans come to believe that teamwork will produce better results for everyone than will self interest.
That's because it has long since been proven that this is actually the preferred strategy. If you want to maximize your own outcomes, you have to look out for others and help them along, too.
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so the next question: Can global teamwork and fairness possibly help everyone better than any of us can do on our own or with our union, lobbyist,party,lawyer etc.
Yes. In fact, cooperative strategies always outperform selfish ones. Again, you need to get yourself to the science library and find yourself some mathematics textbooks on game theory.
Look up "Prisoner's Dilemma" and "Tragedy of the Commons." If you are truly interested in survival, you need to look beyond the next moment. It does you no good to survive today if the actions you take ensure you will not survive tomorrow.
Rrhain
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