On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:14:59AM +0200, Karin Kosina wrote:
> I can give you a present so that others are awed about how generous I
> am. I can also give you a present because I like you and I want you to
> feel happy about it, and/or because I think it will make your life
> easier. :)
yes, but in a truly altruistic sense it should not matter
who gives the present to the person you like,
however (at least to me) it makes a big difference
that i am actually the person that gives you something to
feel happy about, and not someone else.
and that is the egoistic part here.
greetings, martin.
-- looking for a job anywhere in the world, doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium /pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration. -- pike programmer open-steam.org (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at unix (iaeste|bahai).or.at iaeste.tuwien.ac.at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B"ahr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/[ Um sich von dieser Liste abzumelden, sende bitte "unsubscribe" ] [ an <linuxevent-request@mlist.austria.eu.net>. ]
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