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Sigma male mindset be like:
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Edited by Ricochet 049: 2/2/2023 9:00:11 PMAspects are. It is competition when you’re after the same resources as another. But it’s not when you are the only one after those resources. What the resource is changes. And the reason it has value to some but not others is also a factor. For example a car mechanic is not competing with a nail salon. And then there are cooperative ventures. Like a book store being next to a coffee shop. To different businesses that generally are pulling in funds from the same source, but benefit from the other being there. These are just small business examples, but it can apply similarly in various situations.
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Edited by pValue2010: 2/2/2023 3:42:02 PMIf you view life as a competition, I think your sense of self worth will subsequently depend on your perceived rank among peers. You definitely see this in some people, whether in the form of money, intelligence, s[i]e[/i]x or some other form of power. Its not a healthy mindset.
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Yes. Competition is why humanity thrived. Being an -blam!- during competition and getting put in your place is a huge life lesson people don't get anymore. Reality will not bend to help you, competition shows you your limits and who you are as a person. A person can be judged on the work they do. Competition almost always improves your work in some way.
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Well morally no. So the general answer is yes.
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no, but yes
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Nah, we all end up as dirt anyway.
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People should be competitive in a friendly way. But if when you say dominate you mean somebody should lord over all the others like Dr. Doofenshmirtz over the tri-state area then no.
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This is survival of the fittest, this is do or die, this is the winner takes it all.
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Edited by Cultmeister: 1/31/2023 10:44:20 AMIt’s worth remembering that although ‘survival of the fittest’ is a natural occurrence, it isn’t done as self-consciously as people like to pretend. A shark doesn’t ‘decide’ to be top of its food chain, it just is. It’s a description of the way things are, not a philosophy on how things ought to be, so people who parrot it to justify the things that they do are ignoring the difference between science and philosophy. We as human beings get to make decisions, we get to question the way the world is, and we have the ability to reflect on things we’ve done and try to change that going forward. If you just think that competition is the only way to live your life, then what makes you different to any other animal? Another way to look at it is that, honestly, most things can be boiled down to competition even if it’s not serious or aggressive. And whether we want it to be true or not, even something as mundane as conversation can be a form of competing, either with one another or against an imagined opponent. When I write a piece of poetry there’s a niggling voice in the back of my mind, that wants this piece to be the best it can be, or even the best just against all my other pieces if not against all of recorded literature. So in this way can we really escape competition if we wanted to? Why do you want to well in school? Or have a good job? Or be happy? Because you want to be ‘better’; better than you are/were/could be, or better than others in various senses, but either way this is competition no? I think the main issue here is how far we let competition control our conscious lives. Among the ABM (ambient black metal) and heavy shoegaze music scenes there was a widely-hailed artist known as The Angelic Process who were active around the mid-2000s. They were a duo, a couple. The guy was a perfectionist to such an extent, that when he suffered a hand injury and could no longer play music the way he could before, he fell into a deep depression and the material abruptly stopped, and a year or so later he killed himself. If he’s had more flexibility in his thinking or was willing to set realistic standards for himself, maybe he wouldn’t have done that. Should people really be consciously competing with themselves or others every minute of every day? My answer would be no.
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Edited by Speaker: 1/31/2023 4:53:17 PMIf you don't, then who? [spoiler]H[i]i[/i]tler- that's who.[/spoiler]
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Are you going to make me repeat my “the world ends with you so make the most with what you have” speech again?
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Competition is a part of life, but I don’t think that life can be reduced to merely being a competition. Does”by all possible means” include the worst crimes imaginable? -
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Hey, Tron. Downvote this. - old
Sure, why not?