Both competition and cooperation are forces that make society
work.
If you and I compete, then when you lose, I win. If you
win,
then I lose. Destruction is easy, while construction is
hard work. So
competition leads to desperate attempts to destroy
the other party, even if I
cause damage to myself in the process:
as long as I manage to do more
damage to you than I do to myself,
then I win!
With cooperation: if you win
then I win, if you lose then I lose. So we work together to ensure that we both
win.
The competitive spirit is illustrated by the story of the man
who
rubbed an old lamp: out popped a Genie who offered him a wish.
He could wish
for anything in the world. The catch was that his
enemy would get twice
whatever he wished for.
So the man wished to be half killed.
Cooperation
is the force which makes society work, competition is a force which is purely
destructive.
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