* I've heard so many wonderful ideals through the years about
       how things "should be". Utopians are fun to talk about,
       write stories about and I enjoy them. [I was a huge fan of
       Star Trek and Gene Roddenberry's Logical Positivist view of
       the Future. I believed it for a long time too]

       But...

       Cooperation needs agreement without lying, following up on
       promises made in an expected time, in short, being a good
       citizen.

       Doesn't magically happen. Kids still need parents to play
       policeman, teacher, judge, jury, pastor, mentor, friend,
       God, nurse, doctor, psychologist... from even the time
       before they can talk yet and express themselves.

       We have different gene pools, raised in different
       environments, pick up different friends, have different
       teachers, have different enemies... and by the time we're at
       adulthood, it's amazing that people successfully agree
       enough for strangers who are drivers to NOT crash into each
       other all of the time.

       Traffic is amazing. For all of its flaws, I can't think of
       any other place where perfect strangers working lethal
       machines GENERALLY manage to cooperate enough so that most
       people live getting from one place to another.

       So... perhaps there's hope for cooperation. Give people
       lethal powers equally, and they'll respect each other and
       share their bananas.

       [and no, I'm not justifying gun ownership - I was being
       silly but... wow... I kind of scared myself there at the
       thought of it - yikes]

       To get cooperation, requires religions or laws or police or
       schooling or shaming or some other kind of social conforming
       thing.
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       [5]Kenneth Udut [and I don't like social conformity and yet,
       I respect the need for its existence... for other people of
       course but I'm generally a nice person who is only a secret
       troublemaker ]



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