On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Brian Siano wrote:
> Nobody denies that there are social situations where competition isn't
> an explicit factor, or where people can put it aside in favor of other
> motives. That's _not_ what we were asking you to provide-- so your
> answer is as off-topic as it is trivial. Could you please describe an
> _environment_ wherein competition would _not_ arise? What sort of a
> world would produce human beings for whom "competitiveness" just doesn't
> exist? _THAT_ was the question.
>
Okay, we're definitely talking past each other. I don't understand how the question could be effectively answered one way or another. I don't even understand why you think it's an important question to answer. What's the point of bar-stool speculation about this?
Miles