Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Explorations of "social-interest": Origins of Human Society Message-ID: <373@spar.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:02:04 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.373 Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:02:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 06:08:22 EDT References: <657@whuxl.UUCP> <2380051@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 13 > 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