[Carmen]

Okay Dan, a great example for me as I have competed many times in our equivalent of State Fairs. We call them Agricultural & Pastural Show, or A & P Shows. My god do you find bitchy competitive people there! And its all one or two judges opinion of beautiful or useful. Lovely to look at some of these animals, but they are a bit like human beauty compietitions. They don't necessarily correlate to usefulness. Its all surface stuff. For example exotic bulls are often shown, huge handsome and shiny. Put them out with cows on hill country and they are bloody useless. They are used to a pampered down country, well fed environment. Put them on hills to forage and work and they just can't perform!!!!LoL

Dog shows are another example. Competitive silly people are breeding purebreds that are weakening the physical bodies of many breeds. Nature is competitive to a certain degree. Inbred or line bred animals are so removed from survivalbility that without human pampering and interference they would have died out years ago. But nature overall is co-operative. Each species is part of the whole.

Competition as in war ian, is always destructive, but its also co-operative. At the top its competition, on faction over the other. At the lower levels soldiers have to co-operate extremely well with each other to be an effective unit.

Looking at competition from a higher level it is also co-operative. Without the opponent, there is no competition. So its one thing. Weird huh!