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   From: rallen2@bellsouth.net   
      
   uri wrote:   
    > Greed is part of human nature. This is why   
    > communism failed because it tried to do away   
    > with greed.   
      
      
   Ron Allen answers:   
   If greed is only a part of human nature, then   
   perhaps there is another part of human nature.   
   Perhaps this other part of human nature is   
   generosity.  If greed were the only makeup of   
   human nature, or if greed were the dominating part   
   of human nature, then what would this imply about   
   human freedom?  If human nature is mostly or only   
   greed, then is there human freedom of choice?   
   Is a human being free to choose between either   
   being greedy, or being generous?  If human beings   
   are both greedy and generous, then human beings   
   can make a decision to be either one or the other.   
   If human beings are both, then what does a greedy   
   social context do to energize and to motivate the   
   greedy side of human nature?  What would a more   
   generous social environment do to awaken and to   
   activate the generous part of human nature?   
      
      
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   "Citizenship is conferred only on creatures with   
   human and cooperative instincts.  A civilized   
   imagination has to understand and to serve the   
   world."   
   -- George Santayana   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)