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Re:Be the best? by mh_ on Sunday September 15, 2013 @04:24PM (#6390182)
I must confess to finding this answer pretty insulting (but i guess in truth, you are calling everyone monkeys, and just distinguishing between those that climb to the top and those that don't)

I guess the counter-thought would be that of exploration & discovery, where we need trailblazers to set the path that others will follow later..

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Re:Be the best? by zombio on Sunday September 15, 2013 @05:23PM (#6390375)
>I must confess to finding this answer pretty insulting

Oh come on... anyone who finds a simple human/monkey analogy insulting is way too sensitive.

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Re:Be the best? by ibstudios on Sunday September 15, 2013 @07:21PM (#6390733)
Hi. I mean no offense. I should have explained my thoughts better. I am not calling everyone a monkey, I am saying the behavior is a primate behavior that we share.

Discovery/learning is a completely different desire than the need to compete.

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Re:Be the best? by bluedevmonkey on Sunday September 15, 2013 @04:41PM (#6390248)
it doesn't seem insulting for me, perhaps my username led him to call us monkeys (what humans are, kind of ;).
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