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To: exnavychick
Self interest alone is reason enough for people to behave themselves and do right.

We disagree on that. All the people in the world will prove you wrong, they are all sinners. You have it precisely backwards. Self interest is the reason people do wrong.

They don't behave themselves and do "right". And we have the inevitable chaos.

402 posted on 01/26/2005 2:31:24 PM PST by Protagoras (No one is fit to be a master and no one deserves to be a slave. GWB 1-20-05)
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To: Protagoras

Sure they will! All you have to do is appeal to their reason, and point out how not acting like a barbarian will give them better returns than making themselves an outcast from other, more civilized folks. Appeal to their greed, if nothing else. That often works...and that's what I mean by self-interest.

With a screenname like yours, I guess I ought not be surprised that you like to argue. :)


411 posted on 01/26/2005 2:40:38 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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