103,025
edits
Changes
71:5 The Evolution of Competition (view source)
Revision as of 20:27, 20 July 2011
, 20:27, 20 July 2011Created page with 'File:lighterstill.jpgright|frame 71:5.1 Competition is essential to social progress, but competition, unregulated, breeds [[...'
[[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:The_eye_of_all_ur60.jpg|right|frame]]
71:5.1 [[Competition]] is [[essential]] to [[social]] [[progress]], but competition, unregulated, breeds [[violence]]. In current [[society]], [[competition]] is slowly displacing [[war]] in that it determines the [[individual]]'s place in [[industry]], as well as decreeing the [[survival]] of the industries themselves. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder Murder] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War war] differ in their [[status]] before the [[mores]], murder having been outlawed since the early days of [[society]], while war has never yet been outlawed by [[mankind]] as a whole.)
71:5.2 The [[ideal]] [[state]] undertakes to [[regulate]] [[social]] [[conduct]] only enough to take [[violence]] out of [[individual]] [[competition]] and to prevent unfairness in [[personal]] [[initiative]]. Here is a great [[problem]] in statehood: How can you guarantee [[peace]] and [[quiet]] in [[industry]], pay the [[taxes]] to support [[state]] [[power]], and at the same time prevent [[taxation]] from [[handicapping]] [[industry]] and keep the state from becoming [[parasitical]] or [[tyrannical]]?
71:5.3 Throughout the [[Ancient|earlier]] ages of any world, [[competition]] is [[essential]] to [[progressive]] [[civilization]]. As the [[evolution]] of man progresses, [[co-operation]] becomes increasingly [[effective]]. In advanced [[civilizations]] [[co-operation]] is more [[efficient]] than [[competition]]. Early man is [[stimulated]] by [[competition]]. Early [[evolution]] is characterized by the [[survival]] of the [[biologically]] fit, but later civilizations are the better promoted by [[intelligent]] [[co-operation]], [[understanding]] [[fraternity]], and [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]].
71:5.4 True, [[competition]] in [[industry]] is exceedingly wasteful and highly ineffective, but no attempt to eliminate this [[economic]] lost [[motion]] should be countenanced if such [[adjustments]] entail even the slightest abrogation of any of the basic [[liberties]] of the [[individual]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_71 Go to Paper 71]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 71 - Development of the State]]
71:5.1 [[Competition]] is [[essential]] to [[social]] [[progress]], but competition, unregulated, breeds [[violence]]. In current [[society]], [[competition]] is slowly displacing [[war]] in that it determines the [[individual]]'s place in [[industry]], as well as decreeing the [[survival]] of the industries themselves. ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder Murder] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War war] differ in their [[status]] before the [[mores]], murder having been outlawed since the early days of [[society]], while war has never yet been outlawed by [[mankind]] as a whole.)
71:5.2 The [[ideal]] [[state]] undertakes to [[regulate]] [[social]] [[conduct]] only enough to take [[violence]] out of [[individual]] [[competition]] and to prevent unfairness in [[personal]] [[initiative]]. Here is a great [[problem]] in statehood: How can you guarantee [[peace]] and [[quiet]] in [[industry]], pay the [[taxes]] to support [[state]] [[power]], and at the same time prevent [[taxation]] from [[handicapping]] [[industry]] and keep the state from becoming [[parasitical]] or [[tyrannical]]?
71:5.3 Throughout the [[Ancient|earlier]] ages of any world, [[competition]] is [[essential]] to [[progressive]] [[civilization]]. As the [[evolution]] of man progresses, [[co-operation]] becomes increasingly [[effective]]. In advanced [[civilizations]] [[co-operation]] is more [[efficient]] than [[competition]]. Early man is [[stimulated]] by [[competition]]. Early [[evolution]] is characterized by the [[survival]] of the [[biologically]] fit, but later civilizations are the better promoted by [[intelligent]] [[co-operation]], [[understanding]] [[fraternity]], and [[spiritual]] [[brotherhood]].
71:5.4 True, [[competition]] in [[industry]] is exceedingly wasteful and highly ineffective, but no attempt to eliminate this [[economic]] lost [[motion]] should be countenanced if such [[adjustments]] entail even the slightest abrogation of any of the basic [[liberties]] of the [[individual]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_71 Go to Paper 71]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 71 - Development of the State]]