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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:01:04 -0600
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On 1/17/2025 11:34 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Hastily assembled self sufficient volunteers against the #1 
world power are not enough for you? Even in a famous victory 
with continuing political import?

One man vs Army? We do not like to discuss Major Hassan.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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