Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!fred From: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps. Message-ID: <1216@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:27:08 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1216 Posted: Mon Jul 8 11:27:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 13:26:32 EDT References: <1121@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1110@mnetor.UUCP> <1229@utcsri.UUCP> <1188@mnetor.UUCP> <1230@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) Distribution: can Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 14 Summary: In article <1230@utcsri.UUCP> clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) writes: > . . . Your paragraph above illustrates why >"survival of the fittest" means nothing: "fittest" for what? Why, for >survival, of course! The phrase is a tautology. > Fittest for pleasing the customer, I believe. What else? >What's more, the application from evolution is to species, not to individuals. >The distinction is crucial. > It is only an analogy, after all. But a good one I believe. Cheers, Fred Williams