[ExI] Three Way Chess

[Damien Broderick]

At 08:48 PM 2/21/2009 +0100, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> > Again, there are many lessons in this scenario. The first being: why the
> > hell do we have to play adversarial roles in our world???
>
>Because it is often more fun than otherwise? :-)

Which is because we're wired for it, we find conflict and striving 
for advancement over others and taking their toys away from them 
*reinforcing* (as the behaviorists used to put it). Granted, some of 
us most of the time and others some of the time also find it 
unpleasantly stressful, and wasteful, and less profitable than 
cooperation. But the edgy sense of drive and reward is there for 
enough powerful, influential players that the game will never be 
abandoned, only contained to one degree or another.

Damien Broderick