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Comment author: Slider 04 March 2015 02:57:42PM 0 points [-]

Wouldn't this conclusion require that indivudals and their resources are not resources to other individuals? A society that doesn't share their lives in some way is not a community. If you share "the internet" among the number that use it the resultant amount of information migth be quite low, but that doesn't mean that people don't have access to information. In the same way if one chunk of energy is used in one way, it migth fullfill more wishes than just one person. What this means is you either need to cooperate or compete. The only one that can have the universe to himself without contention is the lone survivor. But if you are in a populated universe politics becomes necceary and it sphere widens.