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Is life always, most of the time, half of the time, some of the time, or not competition? Is competition in life a good or bad thing?

I think that it's a sad truth that life is usually competition. However, it doesn't always have to be. I personally hate competition of any kind and avoid it as much as possible. Playing online video games is about as competitive as I get.

Please remember that this is the "Serious Business" board, so you should use proper grammar and spelling and be serious about your response. I can't do anything about it if you don't, but it just honors the subject of the board.

LOL  U ACTUALY WROTE SOMETHING HERE!

SERIOUS TIME?

FUCK NO ITS NOT!  THIS IS THE INTERNET!  THE INTERNET IS NOT SERIOUS BUISNESS!

D'oh. You got me. I R HAV BEEN TROLLED.

So you're not going to seriously respond are you...?

PSH! i didnt even read it!

@ TerribleFrog

Is it really such a sad truth? Natural selection, god, etc.has hardwired humans, and every other animal, to "compete" tosurivive. That may be why whether it be sports, school, business, etc.people tend to be so eager to succeed over others; indeed, much of society isbuilt around competition.

At the same time, guess what these ambitious, overly competitivepeople aren’t doing? There not forming their own armies, trying to overthrowthe government, and oppress your rights. I’d argue that this is one of the mainadvantages capitalism has over communism; a democratic system puts the most politicallyambitious on an unending quest to appeal to the lowest common denominator,trying to appeal to as many “average” Americans as possible; Business isanother primary outlet; here domineering douchebags can struggle and dominate byaccumulating ridiculously large sums of money, and achieve status by thatmeans; still, they are not becoming provincial warlords like you might see inany number of African states; this may be one of the reasons why communiststates are so prone to dictatorships, as their most competitive assholes have nowhereelse to channel their ambition.

I understand where you’re coming from, and yes, people are overlycompetitive pricks a lot of the time, but it could be much worse.

Tl/dr: you wouldn’t care anyway.

i like your answer!

mostly the last sentance. cause its all i read! 

why are you all still here!?!

i like using my reaction pics.

keep talking so i can use more!

Was that too serious?

i duno! i cant even read!

Colossus, you've got it right. I believe that our inherent competitiveness (is that a word?) stems from our basic primal instinct to fight for survival. It is our greed that keeps us alive. This is really why capitalism works so well, it is a setup that turns our own greed against each other, and in the end produces something very good because of it. If two scientists both want to survive, they will both compete very hard to find the cure for the next epidemic, which they will make money off of. Why? Not for the good of mankind, although this certainly may be a motive, but the primary reason is for their own survival. Therefore, this competition stems not from a pointless internal need to see who is the best, but it is a direct result of the greed of two or more groups clashing.

But no one will read this anyway.

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im still not going to read anything you people wrote.

Dr. Colossus at 11:08PM on Feb 25, 2010

@ TerribleFrog

Is it really such a sad truth? Natural selection, god, etc.has hardwired humans, and every other animal, to "compete" tosurivive. That may be why whether it be sports, school, business, etc.people tend to be so eager to succeed over others; indeed, much of society isbuilt around competition.

At the same time, guess what these ambitious, overly competitivepeople aren’t doing? There not forming their own armies, trying to overthrowthe government, and oppress your rights. I’d argue that this is one of the mainadvantages capitalism has over communism; a democratic system puts the most politicallyambitious on an unending quest to appeal to the lowest common denominator,trying to appeal to as many “average” Americans as possible; Business isanother primary outlet; here domineering douchebags can struggle and dominate byaccumulating ridiculously large sums of money, and achieve status by thatmeans; still, they are not becoming provincial warlords like you might see inany number of African states; this may be one of the reasons why communiststates are so prone to dictatorships, as their most competitive assholes have nowhereelse to channel their ambition.

I understand where you’re coming from, and yes, people are overlycompetitive pricks a lot of the time, but it could be much worse.

Tl/dr: you wouldn’t care anyway.

 

Oh yes I would care! That's the reason why I made this thread.

I've never thought of competition as part of our instinct. That's a very good point, one that I agree with too. I also agree with your examples. I was talking on a much smaller level however--although I very much appreciate the depth of your response--, or rather, on a "local," social level; as in, competition between students, employees at the workplace, and such. Competition in survival in perfectly fine in all respects. It is, after all, survival. I think that's it's just a sad truth that to get far in life, you must (even unintentionally) "get ahead" of other people in some way or another, usually reducing their degree of success.

VALHALLA at 02:35AM on Feb 27, 2010

Colossus, you've got it right. I believe that our inherent competitiveness (is that a word?) stems from our basic primal instinct to fight for survival. It is our greed that keeps us alive. This is really why capitalism works so well, it is a setup that turns our own greed against each other, and in the end produces something very good because of it. If two scientists both want to survive, they will both compete very hard to find the cure for the next epidemic, which they will make money off of. Why? Not for the good of mankind, although this certainly may be a motive, but the primary reason is for their own survival. Therefore, this competition stems not from a pointless internal need to see who is the best, but it is a direct result of the greed of two or more groups clashing.

But no one will read this anyway.

FROSTED BUTTS

Just as I stated before, these posts are being read (and with care).

For the record, "competitiveness" is a word.

I agree with everything you said, except for "greed[...] keeps us alive." In some people, yes; that's definitely (and unfortunately) the case. Maybe not exactly "alive," but I see your point. However, some people can live off of other things, not many things, or even very close to nothing at all. Buddhists (spelling?) are a prime example of the latter, as well as other religious people who take vows of poverty and similar oaths.

THIS IS JUST GETTING CRAZY!  whos idea was it to have a serious thread in the first place???  its dumb!

TerribleFrog at 09:19PM on Mar 02, 2010

VALHALLA at 02:35AM on Feb 27, 2010

Colossus, you've got it right. I believe that our inherent competitiveness (is that a word?) stems from our basic primal instinct to fight for survival. It is our greed that keeps us alive. This is really why capitalism works so well, it is a setup that turns our own greed against each other, and in the end produces something very good because of it. If two scientists both want to survive, they will both compete very hard to find the cure for the next epidemic, which they will make money off of. Why? Not for the good of mankind, although this certainly may be a motive, but the primary reason is for their own survival. Therefore, this competition stems not from a pointless internal need to see who is the best, but it is a direct result of the greed of two or more groups clashing.

But no one will read this anyway.

FROSTED BUTTS

Just as I stated before, these posts are being read (and with care).

For the record, "competitiveness" is a word.

I agree with everything you said, except for "greed[...] keeps us alive." In some people, yes; that's definitely (and unfortunately) the case. Maybe not exactly "alive," but I see your point. However, some people can live off of other things, not many things, or even very close to nothing at all. Buddhists (spelling?) are a prime example of the latter, as well as other religious people who take vows of poverty and similar oaths.

I'm not saying unchecked greed, like stealing and whatnot, is what keeps us alive, but rather the instict to always want to gather more to ensure survival, similar to how squirrels stockpile nuts to survive the winter, as opposed to them just eating until they are full and moving on. Greed probably isn't the best word for this, it kind of has a negative connotation.

People can swear off things like this, like Buddhists, though it's not easy. Look at hermits, for example. Human beings are joiners, we naturally group together for mutual survival. Hermits go against this. It's not that it's impossible, just difficult. Another example can be found in many religions; chastity. Biology says that the goal of all living things is to reproduce, so chastity is really a counter to our basic instinct to fuck like rabbits. A lot of faiths are opposed to more primal insticts like these.

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