Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!" Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 07:47:48 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 79 Message-ID: References: <5tekojdk9fqa6qd5fqa7ifqijb9fljc6mu@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 01:47:52 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d87c99bdf870017969e61c7f24c96458"; logging-data="374371"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18fSm+JIJ4JpT1234WG9UhEr8Mv3jpVdhE=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7d881YzLNmC7g9hdwtp2qtiev9Y= Bytes: 4376 On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:18:48 -0300, Shadow wrote: >On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:25:45 -0600, AMuzi wrote: > >>On 1/17/2025 5:21 AM, Shadow wrote: >>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:30:14 +0700, John B. >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:07:10 -0500, Frank Krygowski >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 1/16/2025 12:28 PM, AMuzi wrote: >>>>>> On 1/16/2025 10:30 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>>>>>> On 1/16/2025 10:00 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In my opinion, the reason that humans rose to our place on the food >>>>>>>> chain is because of our individualistic need to better ourselves and >>>>>>>> our situation. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Your rabid individualism has obviously stunted your education. Don't >>>>>>> expect that many will value your totally uneducated opinions. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Interpretation varies. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mr Tricycle has a point, and a very good one at that. >>>>> >>>>> 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". >>>> >>>> By the way, the military solution was to simplify get out of the >>>> helicopter and immediately shoot one of the two fighters. Fight over. >>> >>> What faction were the "military" ? Nazis? >>> They murdered a citizen in cold blood and didn't solve the >>> problem. >>> >>> And unless that "primitive person" was a baboon, his IQ was >>> probably equal to, or even superior to the "military's"***. Not having >>> access to a decent education doesn't make you stupid, it makes you >>> ignorant. >>> []'s >>> >>> *** The military are notoriously stupid. Far more stupid than >>> the general population. >> >>Well, their mission was to prevent a war and further >>slaughter. > > Sounded more like a scuffle between two men. > >>Best solution? Maybe not, but we were not the >>officer in the field that day. > > I would have given each one half of the tarpaulin. One cuts. >the other chooses. And whoever does not agree gets shot in the knee. > Military === Stuuuupid. > []'s But of course, if you are correct no one in S.America world be speaking Spanish or Portuguese, Adolf Hitler's party would rule Europe, the U.S. would still be a colony of G.B. and even more examples throughout the history of mankind. -- Cheers, John B.