"<<<In the social creatures referred to as Homo sapiens there are certain behaviours which rationally lead to profit. These include...>>>"
Murder, rape, theft, deceit, etc etc etc....
"I didn't mean for everyone, you dolt. Just me."
"One day on a walk in the woods, six-year-old Calvin tells Hobbes the tiger that he has decided he doesn't believe in ethics anymore, because, as far as he is concerned, "The ends justify the means." "Get what you can while the getting is good," he reasons, "Might makes right."
At this, Hobbes, who is stuffed in the eyes of all but Calvin, promptly pushes his human friend into a mud hole.
"Why'd you do that?" objects Calvin.
"You were in my way," Hobbes replies, "and now you're not. The ends justify the means."
Sitting in the mud, Calvin seems to reach a brief moment of enlightenment, until he uncovers a way to reconcile the conflict with self-interest. "I didn't mean for everyone, you dolt. Just me." |
