Re: co-ops + human behavior

["Ken Hanly" <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 So how do you explain suicides?Do genetic programmes crash :)
    Cheers, Ken Hanly
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From: Mikalac Norman S NSSC <MikalacNS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:27 AM
>Subject: [PEN-L:5669] co-ops + human behavior


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> co-ops may be limited by people's limited motivation for cooperation with
> each other.  e.g, if we are 25% genetically programmed to cooperate with
> people (for survival purposes) and 75%% genetically programmed to compete
> with people (again, for survival purposes), then cooperative ventures will
> always be subordinate to competitive ventures on the average.  if this
> assumption is true, then no matter how much leftists try to change the
> environment ("culture") to promote more cooperation and less competition,
> their efforts will always be limited by "human nature" (genetic
> programming).
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