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    Quote Originally Posted by Teutone View Post
    Do you agree with my thought: Competition and rivalry resulted in more achievements than cooperation and friendship?

    All of the great technological and civilization-related achievements came trough war and competition between great powers

    Because the possibility to not keep up to date with your enemies and try to become stronger in all kind of aspects could quickly end up with you being invaded.

    I think the conflicts and multiple ethnicities made the European race so superior in combat and lead to us colonize most of this planet.

    Therefor globalism or Pan-Europeanism are totally counter productive.
    Dude, it's almost impossible to return to those days of hyper-competition. For instance, the rivals of France and the U.K. have similar amounts of nuclear war heads and the same is true for Russia and the United States.


    Mutual(ly) assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike).[1] It is based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. The strategy is a form of Nash equilibrium in which, once armed, neither side has any incentive to initiate a conflict or to disarm.

    The term "mutual assured destruction" was coined by Donald Brennan, a strategist working in Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute in 1962.[

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual...ed_destruction

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    I don't buy the premise because the two aren't mutually exclusive. You could argue the cooperative nature of traditional Japanese or even Germanic culturals is a big part of their success.

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    Yes, life is sadly unfair and progress comes from tough situations

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    Yes, I definitely agree but I think cooperation and friendship can be good for certain types of achievements.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daco Celtic View Post
    I don't buy the premise because the two aren't mutually exclusive. You could argue the cooperative nature of traditional Japanese or even Germanic culturals is a big part of their success.
    Great point dude. This list is filled with cooperative societies.

    You can see the countries with the highest quality of life below.
    Netherlands — 88.65. ...
    Norway — 88.70. ...
    Sweden — 88.80. ...
    Switzerland — 88.87. ...
    Australia — 89.13. ...
    Denmark — 89.39. ...
    Canada — 89.49. ...
    Finland — 90.09. Everyone says Scandinavian nations have the highest standard of living, and now Finland has made it official.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daco Celtic View Post
    I don't buy the premise because the two aren't mutually exclusive. You could argue the cooperative nature of traditional Japanese or even Germanic culturals is a big part of their success.
    There is no cooperative nature in Germany, not sure about Japan.

    The greatest success story was our car industry in a constant competition leading to groundbreaking advancments, even now when most car brands are owned by the volkswagen group, they make sure the competition keeps going.

    Our biggest retail stores saturn and media markt are owned by the same guy, the last thing he would do is merge them together, he appoints ceos for each company and let them be in a constant battle.

    Apples success story? Steve Jobs genius idea of appointing engineer teams completely separated from eachother in a constant competition even within the company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daco Celtic View Post
    I don't buy the premise because the two aren't mutually exclusive. You could argue the cooperative nature of traditional Japanese or even Germanic culturals is a big part of their success.
    There is no cooperative nature in Germany, not sure about Japan.

    The greatest success story was our car industry in a constant competition leading to groundbreaking advancments, even now when most car brands are owned by the volkswagen group, they make sure the competition keeps going.

    Our biggest retail stores saturn and media markt are owned by the same guy, the last thing he would do is merge them together, he appoints ceos for each company and let them be in a constant battle.

    Apples success story? Steve Jobs genius idea of appointing engineer teams completely separated from eachother in a constant competition even within the company.

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