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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Fri Nov 23, 2012, 07:04 PM Nov 2012

The strong are meant to protect the weak. After all, things do change.

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The strong are meant to protect the weak. After all, things do change. (Original Post) Scuba Nov 2012 OP

Nice way to visualize the changing nature of life. iemitsu Nov 2012 #1

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)

1. Nice way to visualize the changing nature of life.

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Fri Nov 23, 2012, 07:14 PM

Nov 2012

Clearly we are inter-dependent and social beings, inclined by nature to support those weaker,and to accept help when we are the weak. The fossil record reflects this as does history.
It is only those, who stand to profit from isolating us, who preach the gospel of the rugged individual.

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