Fair enough, Richard. Don't we all! But such an assertion without specific definition is another example of the 'question-begging' to which, as I have remarked more than once on other threads, you seem to me to be prone.

I had a Higher Schools history teacher at school who used to say that, properly speaking, every essay should begin with Adam & Eve; and I am aware that my feeling that all argument should begin with our definitions of the terms used involves something of the same sort of paradox. But use of emotive terms like "selfishness", when we all know that labour accuses capitalism of 'selfishness' while capitalists level the same accusation at the TU movement, won't get us any further forward until we either qualify our usage of such terms, or find other, more specific ones with which to engage.

Seriously now, Richard, would you not accept such a ground-clearing exercise as essential if discussion is to go anywhere?

~M~