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  1. Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!tulane!wpg!russ
  3. From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
  4. Subject: Re: Human motivation and true altruism
  5. Message-ID: <C005rt.2Jp@wpg.com>
  6. Organization: WP Group
  7. References: <1992Dec28.235414.16537@pixel.kodak.com>
  8. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 03:59:52 GMT
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  11. Russell Lawrence writes:
  12. rl> ....some christians are capable of respecting the golden rule...
  13. rl> thereby refuting Rich's claim that all behavior is selfish.
  14.  
  15. From article <1992Dec28.235414.16537@pixel.kodak.com>, by young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young):
  16. ry> The "Golden Rule":
  17. ry> 
  18. ry> Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
  19. ry> 
  20. ry> You wanna re-think your "refutation," Russell?
  21.  
  22. Not really, unless there's some reason for us to believe that altruism
  23. and selfishness are equivalent concepts.  
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26. Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
  27. russ@wpg.com   uunet!wpg!russ
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