>From: Bill Roh
>>>"It is better to give than to receive."
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>Tonight, I made a meal for my wife.
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>Tis truly better to
>give, for that moment I was filled with the thought of her happiness, her
>pleasure. It was good.
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So what you're saying is that the desire to give evolved to facilitate personal relationships within communities, especially when you give to people you like who are likely to share some of your genes; and the phrase about giving is simply like any catch phrase: it makes the user appear more intelligent/creative/etc.?
Jared Warren
jawarren@trentu.ca