Re: Emotion Selection

KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:16:27 +0200

KPJ wrote:
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|I believe your concept division lacks support in common usage.

It appears as if Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
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|Common usage tends to identify the two divisions, which is bad because
|then all forms of this emotion are lumped together as bad, and the
|alternative is to be non-envious which usually is meant to mean
|"doesn't want anything anybody else has" - a perfect altruist subject
|for robbers and kings.

Non-envy does not necessarily imply altruism.

If X does not envy Y having Z, does not imply that X feel altruistic. X could simply dislike having Z.
Example: Z = AIDS

I can think up a number of other, less drastic, examples.