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

On 1/17/2025 2:01 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/17/2025 11:34 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 1/17/2025 11:59 AM, AMuzi wrote:

On 1/17/2025 10:55 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

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.
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OTOH, human beings working cooperatively have built entire civilizations.

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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".

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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.
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The term "war" when correctly used implies cooperation. Each army cooperates within itself.
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The oh-so-proud rugged individualists might try attacking an army to see whether individualism beats cooperation.
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Like at Lexington perhaps?

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The colonists certainly cooperated among themselves, no?
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Your counterargument needs to be one man who took on an army and won.
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 Hastily assembled self sufficient volunteers against the #1 world power are not enough for you? Even in a famous victory with continuing political import?
 One man vs Army? We do not like to discuss Major Hassan.
 

IT doesn't take much organization to organize an ambush. Yes, the colonialists were in fact organized, was it hastily planned? yes, was is a bunch of individualists randomly opening fire? certainly not.
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