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Dear Faldage,
Philosophy aside, if we do help others, we're probably better able to do so if others have helped us. We learn by experience and example.
Symbiosis. Probably not a philosophy, but a function of getting along more easily--at times.
Professional credo: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."
Personal credo: "By turning, turning, we come 'round right."
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Dear Max,
You quoted, "When ye have and hold a need, hearken (AWAD today) to other's greed" .
Sounds Ghandian to me in essence. Moderation to the max, Max!
Also, a quibble. Wouldn't the thing read with more sense if your other's read others', hmmmmmm?
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But you would not force them to do so, would you, if they did not wish to?
That's not the hortatory must, my dear Max, but the biological imperative must.
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"property is theft" - Proudhon (1840)
The following response is posted facetiously, not intending any serious political discussion. No brickbats, please.
-ISMS
Socialism: You have two cows. Give one cow to your neighbor.
Communism: You have two cows. Give both cows to the government, and they may give you some of the milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. You give all of the milk to the government, and the government sells it.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows.
Anarchism: You have two cows. Keep both of the cows, shoot the government agent and steal another cow.
Capitalism: You have two cows. Sell one cow and buy a bull.
Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government makes you take harmonica lessons.
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Which shows us just how *unrealistic it is for a democracy to harbor capitalists (and versa vice).  "Ownership is idiocy" - anonymous (2001)
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Some of the best sayings I have heard give good advice :
i.e. "Always give your opponent an honorable way out."
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