From the blog www.blissanddrumming.com, read by Clementine.

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I don’t believe that it is our nature to constantly compete. This is my hippie worldview. In this society, it’s something we come to believe as truth due to the requirements of capitalism and militarism. I think “healthy competition” is a fabrication of society. Empathy is what sets humans apart from animals, so seeing competition in nature and drawing the conclusion that it is ingrained in us isn’t fair. I think we are born to cooperate, to use this natural empathy, and to want the best for everyone around us. I think it’s just some fairly new systems that humans have bought into that make us believe that’s just how it is.

That’s a big debate I know, and I imagine I will always lose this sort of argument, but I smilingly know I’m right.