On 2/18/2012 12:41 PM, George Plimpton wrote:

You are funny. Want to see why?

Society is not an organic entity. It has no will, it does not act.
Individual people have will and undertake actions. When they act in
concert, it does not mean some "collective" is acting; it means
individual persons are acting collectively, in pursuit of their *shared*
individual interests.

You have no clue what teamwork is.

I do know exactly what it is, having been part of many teams. It is the
concerted effort of *individual* persons working toward a *shared*, not
"collective", goal. They do it because they see it as in the
*individual* interest of each of them, and that doing so together is
more effective than doing so as individual persons.

Wrong!



That's what teamwork is.

Wrong!

An individual person can voluntarily leave a society and go inhabit
another place with a different society, or live in isolation in no
society at all. Your eyeball cannot choose on its own to go live in
someone else's eye socket, or to live in isolation.

Society can banish an individual member

No, "society" cannot do that.

Wrong!

Every time you say "society" does this or that, you are *wrong*. Society
is not an organic entity - it does nothing.


All individuals are under the power of the society.

False.

Wrong!

You can't do anything without the approval of society unless it's a
triviality.

False.

Wrong!

You really should shut up about "society" - all your beliefs and
statements about it are wrong.

You mean in a layman's opinion, right?

I mean in absolute terms. The reason is because your statement of what
society is is 100% wrong.

Wrong!



So much for the argumentative power of Mr. Plimpton. You think
substituting your opinion for the facts is a winning argument for
whatever you claim. It's not.

Hawke