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Old 03-19-2008, 03:28 AM   #108 (permalink)
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Genetics are a tenuous base on which to base capitalist dogma.

I suggest that you read the works of Richard Dawkins, starting with "The Selfish Gene" - should your personally selected divine revealer of Truth with a direct connection up to the bearded guy in the clouds allow you. HUMOUR ALERT.

Also, just to make it perfectly clear, the term "selfish" is used in a very specific, non-usual manner in "The Selfish Gene". Greed-is-good, free market, laisez faire capitalism is not backed up by Biology as nature's way.

Free markets are not a corollary of genetics. (no economic, philosophical, religious or political theories are)

Specifically, Ch. 12

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