[ExI] Three Way Chess

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So some on one side "are just having a little fun" whereas others on theother
side might be fighting in pure terror for their lives having little or no
alternative.

Be careful what demons you call up this way. Some people might decide
to give up and to hell with it.

2009/2/21 Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com>

> 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
>
>
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