Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA15480 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:52:24 GMT Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:46:40 -0800 Message-Id: <200202050246.g152keV14823@mail13.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [66.156.195.136] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Selfish memes ? Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com> memetics@mmu.ac.uk Re: Selfish memes ?Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 17:20:20 -0800
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>>Subject: Re: Selfish memes ?
>>Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:09:15 -0500
>>
>>On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 10:33 , Kenneth Van Oost wrote:
>>
>>>Why can 't altruistic behavior in the extreme not be a case of
>>>selfishness !?
>>
>>Society itself is a dance around this- the cultural environment is, like
>>that village we all done heard tell about a few years ago, what raises
>>the child, after all. Sacrifices to that environment are beneficial
>>(they can be...) to that environment, and thus, ones genes are given a
>>further chance to keep going.
>>
>>Strong sociocultural units are survival mechanisms, and always have been.
>>
>>Like ants, however, such 'selfishness' as this sort of altruism is,
>>needs obeisance and dependence.
>>
>>- Wade
>>
>Are you implying that the soldiers who seemed so eager to go to Afghanistan
>to fight the Al Quaeda and the Taliban and perhaps lose their lives in the
>process did so out of obeisance and dependence?
>
Yes, to what their mullahs told them was the will of Allah. The term 'Islam' may be translated as 'Submission'.
>
>Or perhaps the players in
>the Superbowl suffered the years of broken bones and strained muscles and
>other forms of deprivation for those reasons rather than the hope of finding
>glory? Now I'm beginning to feel disillusioned. ;-(>
>
Howzabout making money (bonus clauses) and the respect of their peers?
>
>Grant
>
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