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To: George S. Montgomery who wrote (76752)	4/3/2000 3:20:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

What humiliation? Your dismissal is based on a failure to see my point. To restate: Socialism is based on a flawed, romantic appraisal of the human animal. Thus - socialism is doomed to be a refuge of abdicators (the honest ones), or of schemers (the ones who see personal gain in the widespread acceptance of the fallacy). Lumps or splits are irrelevant. An idea in order to be beautiful needs to be durable. Utopian abdications are short of the latter, so they miss the former mark as well. Functional integrity is a necessary but not sufficient condition for an idea being good. "If it's good, it's been by definition proven to work. But just cuz it works doesn't make it good." Ethics are complex. >Alturism, as a general concept, is a necessity of our improving species. Fine lines be damned.< On this we disagree. God is in the fine lines. Knowing the lay of those lines is the difference between success and failure. And in a Darwinian universe, success is the single coin of the realm. Altruism, ethics, duty, honor, good karma are all subdenominations of the same final desideratum: success for self, family, tribe, nation, species, biome.