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First of all, penguin...do you even know what a zero-sum game is?
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Yes, I know what zero sum games are. I'm not sure you do.
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A zero-sum game is where there is a winner and a loser.
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No.
A zero sum game is where the amount won by the winner is
equal to the amount lost by the loser.
"Most economic situations are non-zero-sum"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum (along with every damn economics course I have ever taken)
Robert Wright - "society becomes increasingly non-zero-sum as it becomes more complex," [same article]
I stated in my post "There is no way human society (Life as far as you are concerned) is a zero sum game."
I guess I was wrong there, you obviously think we live by the law of the jungle (since a system of laws in a civilized soceity is another non-zero sum game, you can't think you live under that).
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I defy you to tell me that the grand majority of life(by life, I don't mean just human beings)
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I am pretty sure I said that I did mean human beings. I'm a human being, and I'm assuming you are too. Do you seriously think that if I'm hungry I should just kill and eat you? If not, stop trying to use lions to justify your arguments.
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Lastly, I would not make a habit of denouncing someone as a sociopath.
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Ahh, but you think life's a zero sum game, so I should do whatever I can to "win" regardless of the people I hurt. Lets say calling you a sociopath causes you 1 unit of annoyance. If life was a zero sum game, then not calling you a sociopath would have caused me 1 unit of annoyance.
So 1) If life is a zero sum game, you can't complain about me calling you a sociopath, and 2) since not calling you a sociopath wouldn't have caused me one unit of annoyance (perhaps 0.1 units for having to change my post), there's another non-zero sum situation.
I'm not going to get (further) into personal insults, so snipped the rest of your post.