On Dec 26, 2007 2:33 PM, Paul Kislanko <<a href="mailto:jpkislanko@bellsouth.net">jpkislanko@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2">The whole idea that a locksmith would minimize his
own utility to maxmize the landlord's is so far off the credibility scale that
it is not worth considering </font></font></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br>So I guess you are with me then, in that we shouldn't expect people to do things that are against their own interests? Cool, glad to have some support on that.
<br><br>Of course, you are more hard-core than me. I claim that relying on non-self-interest is a bad idea, and only over time do people become selfish if the system rewards them strongly for being so. You say that every individual must be solely motivated by self interest, period, with not even a single exception being possible.
<br><br>You are more in my corner than I am!<br><br>I just figured the locksmith had gotten high and listened to John Lennon's "Imagine." Or maybe he was the brother of the owner, and was doing it as a favor, and didn't want the extra business.
<br><br>Or.....I just figured that people reading the story wouldn't really be concerned about the locksmiths motives, considering them irrelevant.... since worrying about that would be actively trying to miss the point, and people don't do that. Oh, wait....
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