Stephen Heyer, Queensland Australia
E-Mail: sjh@msn.com
Dated: 9 January, 1996
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Heyer's rules of thumb of human behavior and society:
1. Human beings are endlessly opportunistic, self-serving and self-deceiving. That is the secret of their success.
2. Most attempts to elaborate core ethics are really attempts by one group to corrupt those ethics and gain advantage at the cost of others (see rule 1).
3. People struggle to extend their preferred method of gaining power and privilege and to discredit competing methods (see rule 1).
4. For all their intelligence, humans are no better than rats at dealing with the limits of growth (see rule 1).
5. All societies are under constant challenge both from other societies and from opportunistic internal groups (see rule 1).
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