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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Explorations of "social-interest": Origins of Human Society
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:02:04 EDT
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> Human beings are individals.  They form societies for mutual benefit,
> i.e., to facilitate achievement of their individual goals.
> 
> 						Mike Sykora

Can you cite a single instance of a lasting human society (not a club 
or other special-interest organization) being formed by the rational 
agreement of otherwise atomic human beings?  If not, on what basis are 
you making this assertion?   There is disagreement among anthropologists 
about how human societies form and develop, but it would appear that man
is an *instinctively* social animal.  Do you have evidence to the contrary?

						Baba