>Whoever left it didn't want/need/have to use it, and left it there, so
>it would be used instead of going to waste. I saved another forty cents
>(the difference, doubled by store policy). I have no way of knowing who
>left it, and they had no way of knowing who would pick it up, or indeed
>whether it would be used before it expired at all.
>Does this (admittedly small) act qualify as altruism in your view?
Altruism is a DESCRIPTION of behavior, not a CAUSE of behavior in most
cases.
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.206.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Do you know what a "meme" is?
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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