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To: Bigtigermike
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If we could somehow eliminate envy from the human genome, there would be almost no reason for the left to exist. They would instantly lose that which animates them, for example, envy masquerading as justice or economic theory.

28 posted on 12/13/2010 8:17:14 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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Bookmark for later reading. Sees like an interesting article. Thanks for posting.


32 posted on 12/13/2010 8:42:24 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Matchett-PI
If we could somehow eliminate envy from the human genome, there would be almost no reason for the left to exist.

If it wasn't for envy we would still be naked eating grubs from a stick. Envy is what ignites tribal warfare and is the special evolutionary force that drives human evolution. Humans will always self-divide into enviers and the envied. Even if we could eliminate our current batch, the enviers would spontaneously reform.

This chapter about "Envy and Its Transmutations" was well done: http://www.as.uky.edu/academics/departments_programs/Psychology/Psychology/faculty_research/faculty/richardsmith/Documents/Smith2004chapter.pdf

42 posted on 12/15/2010 6:21:09 AM PST by Reeses
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