From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Tue May 11 1999 - 11:56:22 MDT
> My utopia is all about helping everyone achieve what
> they really want. Why would anyone resist that?
Because they refuse to deny the fundamental reality
that diverse humans /will/ have directly conflicting
desires. That indeed that very diversity of interest
is what makes us unique and precious.
To the extent that I can get what I want by helping
you get what you want, that's great: it's called
trade, and I'm all for it. But human progress is
made by those people who want /more/ than their
neighbor, and are willing to compete for it.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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