Re: POL: Darwinism meets the republic (was: Re: Iraq: the case for decisive action)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 16:31:59 MST


--- Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > (A) getting re-elected
>
> If you take a Darwinian approach, any and all actions of groups and
> individuals currently in power in a republic converge on that goal.
> Ethics, the well-being of the people, etc are all secondary to being
> re-elected. Anybody with different priorities will eventually be
> ousted in favor of those who prioritize re-election. A multi-tier
> system, where politicians have to work their way up, will sort out
> defectors at the lower levels before they can rise to the top.

Only to the short sighted. If you have read Robin Hanson's work on
altruism as self interest, you'd see that your supposition is not
really the case.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                     - Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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