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#1

In a message dated 2/28/2008 7:02:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sresnick2@comcast.net writes:

You don't even have to assume that others will reciprocate. By helping
others, you immediately decrease the power of your selfishness, which
will (with mathematical precision) reduce your suffering, regardless of
what anyone else does.

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I agree to a point. If someone needed a car more than you would you give
them yours to keep?

Grumpy

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#2

In a message dated 2/28/2008 7:02:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sresnick2@... writes:

You don't even have to assume that others will reciprocate. By

helping

others, you immediately decrease the power of your selfishness,

which

will (with mathematical precision) reduce your suffering,

regardless of

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, BANDSTAND54@... wrote:

what anyone else does.

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I agree to a point. If someone needed a car more than you would you

give

them yours to keep?

No, but to modify your analogy to the point where it makes some

sense, I might very well LOAN them my car, if not out of a sense of
cooperation, at the very least, out of an expectation that he might
own something that I can borrow in the future.

Grumpy

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Living.

(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-

campos-duffy/

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#3

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tralfamidorgooglycrackers"
<tralfamidorgooglycrackers@...> wrote:

>>>No, but to modify your analogy to the point where it makes some
sense, I might very well LOAN them my car, if not out of a sense of
cooperation, at the very least, out of an expectation that he might
own something that I can borrow in the future.

Is that called the Detroit shakedown?