Thanksgiving is a Holiday for Producers

[onesalt]

If anything, thank yourself and everybody else for the wealth we have all created. Let's celebrate our mutual gain. Let's celebrate what we have all gained by our rational selfishness through the value we cherish in our fellow man and the value we bring through ourselves.

You were never taught sharing in kindergarten, were you?

I see nothing wrong with voluntarily sharing.

Well, I was not at the great feast between the pilgrims and the Indians like you were, but I believe the reason we celebrate this holiday is because most of us would be dead if it weren't for the Indians' kindness and generosity to us crackers when we sucked so much ass at taking care of ourselves.

I don't know if there was an 'exchange of value', I think they were just human beings with hearts, but that said Happy Thanksgiving! And may you receive a value from eating your turkey!

Caring for others is an equitable exchange of value. The debt is paid inherently through the value one receives by seeing the other person happy. A person who gives gifts with an expectation of a contracted debt in return is not generous nor caring but a loan shark.

Your posts are just a stream of verbal diarrhoea, seriously. Christ.

[JeffK]

If anything, thank yourself and everybody else for the wealth we have all created. Let's celebrate our mutual gain. Let's celebrate what we have all gained by our rational selfishness through the value we cherish in our fellow man and the value we bring through ourselves.

Your posts are just a stream of verbal diarrhoea, seriously. Christ.