h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ask you, perhaps?

-- DoctorMO --

They don't know you're not lying. Similarly in exams they don't know you're not cheating, but it's harder to cheat in an exam than to lie in an interview.

what an untrustworthy lot you all are, then.

how can you expect people to trust each other if there backstabbing and cheating?

-- DoctorMO --

Y'can't. That's the point. And you can't say "Ok, now everyone be good, right?" because all it takes is one guy to cheat (we've talked about selfishness before, I'm sure of it) and get the upper hand to scupper the entire system. Humanity is fundamentally stupid, selfish and horny.

I blame nature!

Oh well, I'll just have to set an example then, and prove that you don't need to lye to get jobs.

-- DoctorMO --

btw, you know I tend the get funny looks because I'm contantly saying 'good morning'/'good evning' to people as I walk to/from work and when I'm just about. you'd think that the comunity had died or somthing.

-- DoctorMO --

Wow. Must be funny.

Ah, what is this mythical community? I've heard people talking about protecting it, giving something back to it, but what actually is it?

somthing to do with a group of people, doing things for the whole. and it's only for lack of trust that it's such a myth.

-- DoctorMO --

But aforementioned lack of trust is not going to go away.

maybe...

-- DoctorMO --

I mean, even if the whole world was devoutly religious, same religion, then there would, in all probablility be someone who decided to turn away from what they had been taught from the cradle and lie. Or cheat. Or steal. /And/ not confess.

what you have to do is make it geneticaly unsusesful for people to go against others, newtering then has always been a frovourate.

wait a few generations and you would have reduced the amount of people that lie, either that or you could develop the same mentality and Ank Morporks ruler and let crime rule itself.

-- DoctorMO --

Yeheh. Have you been to PA?

No, I belive more in favour of the inderviduals rights, i.e right to free speach, but I've still got that small voice saying "what about the right to silence?" and so on.

What I sujested above is not what I belive, just a solution with as many unsavoury moral implications as the crimes.

-- DoctorMO --

Okey dokey. Well, nothing's perfect.

Actually, the right I like most is the one that should be as well known as all the others, the right to be fundamentally left alone. When ya need it.

PA? Been? Please?

what is PA? I can only hasard that it's some right wing group although you can probbly tell how shallow in the experance I am.

-- DoctorMO --

Nooo, not right wing. Fascist free zone. PA= Pratchetts Anonymous. There's some dodgy grammar there but it's a Pratchett appreciation club I set up, though in practise it talks about everything. It's just we all get the common references to the oeuvres of Pratchett.

OK so that kinda makes me look red , how can I go around reading piles of Terry Prattchet books and not know that?

-- DoctorMO --

Not many people know. But if PA is also the name of a right wing group (grr) I should probably change it. Dint know you read Pratchett. Read Night Watch?

Yes.

Good book.

Just finished Piramids, I've been reading them in the wrong order. (as always)

-- DoctorMO --