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tim@stonerise.com (Tim) wrote in message news:<31554a99.0401091537.de88eee@posting.google.com>...
> donquijote1111@yahoo.com (Don Quijote) wrote in message news:<d82348eb.0312291003.5ec90bc5@posting.google.com>...
> 
> > I have a hard time telling of another animal who hates Nature so much.
> > Other species have learned to live with it, but we sure are
> > relentlessly assaulting the bounty of Nature, almost with a passion...
> 
> All animals hate nature.  Otherwise, they'd happily plant seeds and
> wouldn't eat, and would be happy to die, so as to feed another
> generation.  Most animals fight for survival, many fight for
> territory, many fight for sport, and some lifeforms are even
> victorious by not appearing to fight at all.  Every animal that is
> remotely sentient will always want more than it has -- greed and envy
> are natural instincts throughout the wild kingdom.

Thank you for that interesting if gloomy picture of Nature. Actually
it's so gloomy that now I can start to rationalize the behavior toward
the environment of the most powerful nation on Earth and even
Terrorism, not as something inherently evil, but just another
manifestation of the workings of Nature. The Law of the Jungle. And
their victims were going to die anyway sooner or later, so what's the
point of stressing out over such trifles? Don't worry, be happy!

By the way, do you know why God hurled the Asteroid to the dinosaurs?
Yeah man, the dinosaurs refused to *evolve*, another law of Nature.
And you know another law of Nature, besides competition? Yeah right,
*cooperation*, which though it wouldn't make you eternal, it can
expand your life considerably, and perhaps more importantly, it can
make it better, much better... ;)

EVOLVE OR ELSE! 

Once upon a time lived a race of dinosaurs whose violence and appetite
alarmed everybody... One day a Little Ant, tired of feeling stepped
upon, and worried about her cooperative enterprise, came up to the
Americanus Raptor--the biggest dinosaur of them all--and asked: "Why
you always have to protect the right of the dinosaurs, who do nothing
but eat everything in their path? Why don't the little animals get a
fair share of this world?" Then the dinosaur, who had a bad temper,
replied: "Bigger is better, so get lost..."

The Little Ant, then, gathered the whole cooperative and said:
"Comrades, our world is being threatened by the dinosaurs, so..." And
at that precise moment the Earth was hit by a big ball of fire,
destroying all but the small animals...

"Competition, Cooperation or Both?"

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Are we to learn something from evolution? Well, it would probably be
that both Competition and Cooperation are necessary... Thus only a
balance of the two (which neither communism nor capitalism offers) can
constitute a stable political system... This interesting article
illustrates the point...

Spectrum Five: Competition vs. Cooperation 

Summary 
Humans, like all animals, form cooperative groups to compete for
limited
resources. All life is ultimately competitive, because the natural 
tendency of any population is to explode, although it is kept in check
by the limited food supply (and other factors). Because there are more
animals than food, animals must compete to survive. In situations
where
the food supply is somehow sufficient, deadly competition falls. 
Liberals therefore advocate the creation of a sustainable economy,
where
the population is kept constant (through birth control) and resources 
are used no faster than they can be replaced. The result will be a
more
cooperative and civil society. 

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