Yes, the Pokeathlon is really cool! I enjoy being able to score Rare Candies on several days. And I have trouble with the Pennant Chase also. I wonder how many other people find that one difficult.
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Human nature... is to be better than others, I suppose you could say. Now, for sure, there are exceptions (there always are in large groups), but that's the gist of it.
Basically, in a perfect communist society, everyone is equal. Everyone has the same things, the same wages, and theoretically everyone is happy.
However, it doesn't work like that. Call it greed, ambition, whatever, somebody is going to want more. Somebody is going to want to have an easier life, or to have more money than his friend, or to have cooler stuff. This person is eventually going to act on his wishes and the very existence of that person breaks the theoretical utopia.
Giving another example, at least one person will have to be the leader in a communist society in order for everything to work right? But doesn't being a leader make you not equal with everyone else?
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First, that is one of the soundest arguments against communism I have ever seen. Second, that is a profound and correct definition of human nature. I think it's odd how many people delude themselves into thinking that humans are basically nice to everybody. The really funny part? I wish I could explain this better, but the "happy happyist" mentality is inconsistent with two major competing ideas about where we came from. If God made people, then we experienced a Fall, that means we are...well...less than nice to each other. If we evolved, I believe the phrase Darwin used was "we are descended from barbarians." I actually wrote an article pointing this out once; either way the "happy happyists" lose.