ABSTRACT
Individualism and self-interest are, ultimately, end games (Posch, 1994). They add little of honour, on their own, to the human condition though we may all experience them as part of our life force. Care, regard, compassion, community inoculate us from our natural inhumanity and our tendency towards selfishness and neglect of others. With human effort and determination, these benign qualities reproduce themselves, as do their violent counterparts (Miller, 1987). So ethical collaboration, predicated upon benign human means and ends, must be valued, though it be difficult to organize, complex to maintain, unpredictable in its effect; though honourable sharing and virtuous cooperation may be scorned as naivety by cynics.
