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benj wrote:
@ Kakomu - you said:
"No, it seems that you're equating business to a zero-sum game. "
You just don't understand. I'm sorry. Perhaps I suck at explaining things, but you still don't understand...and it seems like you don't want to. I'll make one more attempt...Success is like a fire...not like a pie. You seem to be approaching success as a pie (i.e. that there are only so many slices to go around). And if that works for you, then fine. But for the rest of us that are able to understand the bigger picture, we'll do what works for us. If we are, as you say, naive, the fine. Be grateful that you're surrounded by a mob of naive simpletons to take advantage of.
Benj
No, Benj, you don't understand. You are the one that seems to approaching business as a zero-sum game (your pie analogy). You're the one that thinks that taking advantage of one person's folly for personal gain automatically results in the detriment of another person...even if there is no direct harm to the first person.
You also have failed to quantify what is "underhanded", "unethical", "immoral" (and you're short of calling it "evil", so far), but feel you must berate, demean and belittle those that don't agree with the unwritten rules that you hold near and dear, but refuse to enumerate for the rest of us. This suggests a few things:
A) Your unwritten rules are, actually, unwritten, thus:
B) Your unwritten rules are, in fact, gut reactions
And you hold people accountable to this higher moral gut reaction. But, the biggest irony (or hypocrisy) is the fact that despite not quantifying or qualifying your opinions on morality and only giving vague allusions to some sort of "respect" and what you consider disrespectful, you handily produce rhetoric that is meant to be derisive, judgmental, confrontational and sometimes vulgar in an attempt to force your opinion toward people. You aren't open to other points of view, yielding to no point but your own. You've called me a few names, implied that I'm stupid, implied that I'm a "contaminant", implied that I piggyback on to other people's successes, etc. None of this is the least bit ethical, moral or even kind-hearted. The free discourse of ideas should not include ad-hominem attacks and implications. And, you know what, that's a frequently written moral and ethical rule that dates back to age of the Greeks.
As such, I'm hiding you. You're not worth talking to.
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