Bryan Hyden wrote:
> uh, i think i forgot to attach the attachment.... :) here goes....
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> It's really a paradox. At the deepest levels, there's really no difference
> between selfishness (in the true sense of the word, not the modern misused
> version, i.e. selfishness doesn't nescessarily equal greediness) and
> altruism.
I can agree with this statement in this sense (and it goes along somewhat with
what you wrote):
Saying reciprocal altruism is not real altruism because the giver (potentially)
gets something out of it, is a lot like saying we are all egoists because
everything we do we we do because we want to do it.
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