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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by DominikR on Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:42PM (#11127606)
Sure, if your view is that of a sociopath. Without cooperation you'd be sitting on a tree.

There'd be no society, institutions, states, healthcare, education, families and friendships without cooperation.

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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by dvt on Thursday February 18, 2016 @12:57PM (#11127724)
I think you grossly misunderstood my point.

Furthermore, entire social theories are built on the idea that selfishness is the driving force behind all human behavior. I could quote Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, but there are also contemporary examples (Dawkins and Singer, to name a few). I don't know if I agree with them or not, but there's plenty of conceptual drilling to do before dismissing them as "sociopaths."

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