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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (60497)	10/1/2002 4:31:52 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

see no duty at all to do that although one needs to be cognizant of the risks to one's self-interest in blowing off the expectations of others, no matter how unreasonable. Tending to the niceties is not a duty, IMO, but basic self interest. I agree absolutely. Everyone -- or everyone I know, at least -- wants to be either liked or admired, or both, at least by certain people if not by all people. Some more so than others, but I know of nobody who really wants to be disliked or disrespected by everybody. They may say they do, but that's always, IME, defensiveness, not genuine. Therefore, we tend to do things that will make us liked, and admired. That's one reason why, for example, it's much easier to get large donations out of people in crowds than invidually. Run a charity auction, and people who in the privacy of their homes would never bid even a dollar for a ticket to see the Seattle Mariners and have a photo taken with the Mariner Moose will bid tens or even hundreds of dollars for it. People are watching, and admiring, as you bid the price up, and giving you good vibes for supporting this charity. Public altruism is almost always more effective than private altruism unless it's a charity to which you are closely related already. The point of which digression is that we tend to focus on those social niceities which will make us appreciated and admired by those we want to be appreciated and admired by. I don't see further general contracts with SI. Rather, I see some individual contracts. There are some posters I enjoy posting with, and so I do the things I need to to try to make sure that they continue posting to me. Others I could care less about, or even wish would leave me alone, so I don't in the least mind being rude to them. And there are for sure people who feel the same way about me. So we act here in ways we would never act in 3D life.