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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Walkingshadow who wrote (87547)	12/25/2000 2:58:59 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

If you get down to fundamentals, isn't it just the primal tug-of-war between self-interest and altruism. In the end, self-interest usually wins.

To: Walkingshadow who wrote (87547)	12/26/2000 8:29:14 AM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Walkingshadow, >>other than trivial differences in the things exchanging hands and superficial differences in the participants, such as socioeconomic status and such like....<< I think I'm an honest and decent person. When I imagine myself on the streets of LA without a job or good education, the range of possibilities for my behavior is fairly wide. When I imagine myself as a leading strategist, broker, investment banker, partner, etc... and think about all the millions I would have (that I wouldn't need to be happy) I can't imagine myself behaving the way many people like that behave. I don't behave that way now. I understand your points, but the extremity of the behavior (not everyone of course) over the last few years was a little shocking to me. Perhaps I was very naive. Wayne