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To: PatrickHenry
Yet cooperation is a hallmark of human society, allowing for the creation of everything from the local grange to the United Nations.

I am confused. Is the United Nations an example of people working cooperatively together for the common good or of a bunch of a parasites whose sole goal in life (other than picking up a taxpayer funded paycheck) is to prevent the fruits of liberty and capitalism from being spread throughout the world.

9 posted on 06/29/2006 4:54:09 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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You must realize that the cooperators are also cheaters they have just figured out that cheating is more efficient when alot of people act together to cheat. Thus the UN is born


10 posted on 06/29/2006 4:55:46 PM PDT by Sentis (You said the world doesn't need salvation so why do I hear it calling out for a Savior.)
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To: vbmoneyspender
I am confused.

It's a press release from a Yankee university. I doubt that the UN is mentioned in the actual paper.

11 posted on 06/29/2006 4:56:29 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

I'm reminded of New Orleans. Its citizens did not function as a cooperating small group, but looked to the State and Federal Governments. As a result, the cheaters bilked the intimidated FEMA Handout Brigade of billions and the city is still largely just undertaking the most rudimentary forms of rebuilding. Ditto with the UN. Power to the People - on the local level.


12 posted on 06/29/2006 4:59:55 PM PDT by Socratic ("I'll have the roast duck with the mango salsa.")
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To: vbmoneyspender
The original paper is here: Evolution in group-structured populations can resolve the tragedy of the commons. Without a subscription, I can't read anything but the abstract. The UN isn't mentioned. Gotta blame a Brown journalism major.
14 posted on 06/29/2006 5:04:55 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

I am confused. Is the United Nations an example of people working cooperatively together for the common good or of a bunch of a parasites whose sole goal in life (other than picking up a taxpayer funded paycheck) is to prevent the fruits of liberty and capitalism from being spread throughout the world.

Below is a common model of cooperation brought into question its ends and means.

Proclaiming to save persons and society from running headlong to destruction politicians and bureaucrats create about 3,000 new laws and regulations each year. State government create their own barrage of laws and regs each year.

Yet, how is it that for more than a hundred years, without the "benefit" of the next year's new laws and the laws in subsequent years that persons and society increasingly prospered? How do we increasingly prosper to day with out the "benefit" of new laws and regulations yet to come next year, five years and fifteen years from now?

Also, with the increasing mountain of laws virtually every person breaks the law several times a year. How is it that with all that lawlessness that persons and society have not run headlong over the cliff-edge to destruction? Not to mention that if it were physically possible to apprehend every lawbreaker -- including judges, lawyers, police, prosecutors, bus drivers, grocery clerks etc. -- next week, society would come to a screeching halt -- driving it over the cliff-edge.

Capitalism and the workers that fuel it are the host. Politicians and bureaucrats are parasites living off the host. They leech just enough to gain unearned paychecks, prestige and power. Sure to not so encumber/drain the host where it reduces its production of goods and services beyond that which would leave the parasites to perish. For the parasitical elites cannot produce much needed, life sustaining necessities.

Politics is not the solution. Politics is the problem.

Calling it bizarre would be an understatement. It's lethal. It's the anti-civilization.

Rational and honest principle is strength -- an asset. Irrational and dishonest principle is weakness - a liability. 

39 posted on 06/30/2006 9:24:28 AM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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