Interesting quotes above.

I agree that competition is the main problem, when what we should be working on is cooperation. And there you have the essential disagreement between socialism and capitalism. The first is a community-oriented attitude, the latter is rugged individualism. Both have a useful application, and both should be encouraged, but the community is larger than the individual...therefore, the individual must surrender some freedom on behalf of the community, in everyone's interest.

If you want to buy and sell goods and services, then capitalism works quite well...as long as it is regulated and kept within certain bounds. The regulating of capitalism is accomplished by socialist institutions...like governments, legislatures, and courts...and police, if it comes to that.

Survival of the fittest is a pretty foolish philosophy...specially when you look at the fact that the fittest do NOT survive. John Wayne is just as dead as the little 98 pound weakling next door who never became famous.

It's HOW you live while you're alive that counts...and that has nothing to do with survival of the fittest...quite to the contrary, it has to do with survival of everyone in the community through mutual assistance and cooperation. That's civilization. Curiously enough, that's what Jesus demonstrated in his life, but "Christian civilization" has very rarely taken his example to heart.

- LH