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Paul
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The universe (formerly known as God) rewards us for working out how it works.

When humans lived in small groups or villages, (which is for most of our history), it was very difficult to benefit from being dishonest.

Everyone knew everyone else and it was very hard to keep secrets.

Alpha male leaders who were fair and cooperative had an advantage over those who ruled by aggression and bullying. Cooperation was extremely important.

If someone was caught cheating they risked being expelled from the group. Reputation was everything. Good luck trying to find a new group to join as a stranger !

With the development of larger towns and then cities, and ease of travel, it has become much easier to benefit from cheating until we have the sorry situation today.

Free speech is very important because it lets us know who has been cheating. There are countless ways we can be cheated today ; not just through money creation but also through marketing, advertising, propaganda, obfuscation of “inconvenient” science, the inversion of incentives in medicine and law, growth of governmental bureaucracy and on and on.

Vegans are often impotent

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It’s actually interesting.

In our view of ourselves we rate ourselves from 1 to 10 on how we look from day to day depending on haircut , tan, hungover etc etc. But this rating is NOT in comparison to other people, only ourselves.

Other people rating us would give us a 6 at our worst and a 7 at our best.

Hope that makes sense.

The main principle of military discipline is to reduce men, to what are essentially machines.

They have no volition of their own, but are actuated by the will of their officers. The intense fear of their officers overrides all fear of the enemy. They go into battle when ordered, with no more thought or concern than an automaton.

You no doubt have read this

“In time of war the truth is so precious , it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies”

Churchill

So now it’s a different type of war .

Do you agree ?