Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Constitutionally, they are collaborative and pro-social in their very souls. It would be a grave mistake to place a person like that into that kind of setting, where one regards peers as "opponents" in an elaborate and very, very expensive game of musical chairs.

I don't think it's as much "opponents" as it is "enemies" or "existential threats".

After all, there is only one winner.

I wonder how many of these people can turn away from that worldview after age 40 and decide mankind should really be their business after all. That is, without having a nervous breakdown or other major ten-year emotional crisis first. confused