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Support your position please.

>>michae+(OP)
Sharing resources with other people has absolutely nothing to do with being intelligent.

>>throwa+23
And not sharing them doesn't either.

You still haven't made a point.

Is the intelligent action the action that is most likely to benefit the group?

Is a group of 20 fed dogs stronger than a group of 20 dogs where one goes hungry and becomes a weak or unstable element?

Seems like you're just trying to somehow rally against equality and/or sharing, by associating them with naivité, like you have some knowledge others do not, because you don't like those words, rather than trying to actually discuss the concepts they represent, specifically in this context, properly.

>>throwa+w3
I'm not trying to make a point or rallying against anything. I'm simply saying that I work hard to acquire resources for myself and will never give them away. We can all make moral/ethical/humane arguments about equality and fairness but I simply don't care. If that makes me unintelligent, then I suppose that's just something I'll have to accept.

>>throwa+64
Are you really working hard, or are you working in IT, in a first world country?

>>bildun+66
Probably working more intelligently but less hard than the average person at Walmart.

>>throwa+64
You seem to overlook a wide range of resources - trust, admiration and friendship of others are also resources. So is a society in which people don't let each other live in poverty. The willingness of others to work with you is a resource, which you acknowledge by using a throwaway.

You don't 'give away' resources, they are transformed into other resources. Would you give up the ability to own seven cars for the knowledge that you'll never live under a bridge, no matter what? Many people would.

>>throwa+64
Wow, how bright you are sir... If everybody thought like you, we would have a wonderful world, I am sure!

>>throwa+23
Why not?

We are a social species that attained our dominant position on the planet through co-operation.

>>bildun+66
Probably in finance, at a guess.

>>ionise+a7
In fact we're a social species on top of an interconnected ecosystem which only started being interesting when cells worked out how to cooperate.

All complex life on earth exists because of cooperation. Competition drives some feature drift, but the biggest step changes happened because of the increase in complexity made possible by cooperation.

>>throwa+64
So you choose the suboptimal box in the prisoners’ dilemma?

>>mch82+O9
Hopefully useful nitpick: In the "prisoner's dilemma", it's the dominant strategy. It's only sub-optimal in the /iterated/ prisoner's dilemma, the ominous reason being an expectation of continuity.