Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"

On 1/16/2025 11:30 PM, John B. wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:07:10 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

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I suggest a test. Put Mr. Tricycle out in the wilderness all alone. I
predict he won't better himself or his situation. In fact, I predict he
won't survive long.
>
OTOH, human beings working cooperatively have built entire civilizations.

 Your argument sounds so logical... until one actually work with
primitive people, the ones the trike man is talking about. And yes I
have worked with this sort of people. In one case we had to call in
the Indonesian military to stop a "war" between two villagers over who
would keep a worn out plastic tarpaulin. Hardly an example of
"cooperatively".

Of course there have always been wars - although I note you were honest enough to put "war" in quotes. When two villagers fight it's not a war.
The term "war" when correctly used implies cooperation. Each army cooperates within itself.
The oh-so-proud rugged individualists might try attacking an army to see whether individualism beats cooperation.
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- Frank Krygowski