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December 15th, 2006Blogging Out Loud, Pt. III
December 15th 12:15:04 AM
Some time ago, I wrote a couple posts about greed (which you can find a link to at the end of this post). "What if supporters of personal accounts are greedy?" I asked in the first post. I then offered in the second post some descriptions of greed from times of wealth in the last century, but there was never an explanation as to why it is that personal account supporters are not greedy. So after a long delay, this is the much anticipated finale to the series on greed.
First of all, it should be pointed out that the realization that personal accounts supporters are not greedy did not come in a logical form. As noted in the first post, Sam Harris writes about problems with knowledge, specifically our ability to know what we know. More relevant to this discussion, though, is the research that suggests we often know things before we become conscious of them.
I was watching some clips from the African wild recently on television, and there was an impala being stalked by a leopard. As the leopard crept closer, the impala tensed up and became still. The impala knew that something was wrong, but it remained frozen in place. Why didn't it run away?
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