why are all sports competitive? there didn't get to be seven billion humans on the planet because we are good at competition, lots of failed animals failed while competing with their own kind; more it was because we learned to cooperate. i don't think it takes alot of imagination to conjure up ways people can play a game toward a higher score by means of better cooperation — games where everyone playing is essentially on the same team and cooperation is rewarded, as it so often is in life.
the highly competitive among us are and always have been mostly doing things that make life better for themselves, and often, much tougher for others. is that really still so valuable to us now, now that what threatens us is not lack of fitness but lack of cohesion?
fighting fires is all about cooperation; the enemy is not a person. the team wins if they can, but there is really no opponent who loses, the fire being a phenomenon without a will.
soon the earth will be on fire. what do you think can save it for the creatures? competition?
i don't think so.
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