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RE: My Housemate

To: bernie@doeser.org
Subject: RE: My Housemate
From: djf500@york.ac.uk
Date: 14 Oct 2006 12:21:04 +0100
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I have lots of deadlines, so this will be my only contribution:

Bernie suggests the apparent altruism under investigation might be explained by selfishness. I'm not quite sure of his position, but if in some way *everything* that we do is in some way selfish (even via our dna) then i'm not sure how meaningful it is to apply this to a particular case. I'm not saying that this is what Bernie is saying, but perhaps care is needed to identify a non-general selfishness. Of course, nothing I have said precludes saying that applying general-selfishness (i.e. an everpresent motive) to a particular case *is* meaningless - but it seems to be an possibility that needs addressing.


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