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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:34:49 -0500
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On 1/17/2025 11:59 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 1/17/2025 10:55 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 1/16/2025 11:30 PM, John B. wrote:
>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:07:10 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I suggest a test. Put Mr. Tricycle out in the wilderness all alone. I
>>>> predict he won't better himself or his situation. In fact, I predict he
>>>> won't survive long.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, human beings working cooperatively have built entire 
>>>> civilizations.
>>>
>>> Your argument sounds so logical... until one actually work with
>>> primitive people, the ones the trike man is talking about. And yes I
>>> have worked with this sort of people. In one case we had to call in
>>> the Indonesian military to stop a "war" between two villagers over who
>>> would keep a worn out plastic tarpaulin. Hardly an example of
>>> "cooperatively".
>>
>> Of course there have always been wars - although I note you were 
>> honest enough to put "war" in quotes. When two villagers fight it's 
>> not a war.
>>
>> The term "war" when correctly used implies cooperation. Each army 
>> cooperates within itself.
>>
>> The oh-so-proud rugged individualists might try attacking an army to 
>> see whether individualism beats cooperation.
>>
>>
> 
> Like at Lexington perhaps?

The colonists certainly cooperated among themselves, no?

Your counterargument needs to be one man who took on an army and won.


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- Frank Krygowski