[Dragaera] Verra and the Paths of the Dead

[Howard Brazee]

Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On 10/29/07, *Howard Brazee* <howard at brazee.net 
> <mailto:howard at brazee.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/29/2007 Scott Schultz wrote:
>     >  Perhaps I do Verra a disservice, but it seems to me that rather
>     like
>     >  The
>     >  Devil, everything Verra does is self-serving in some fashion, no
>     >  matter how
>     >  altruistic it may ostensibly be. It's just part of her nature.
>
>     Isn't that pretty much the case of everybody?   At least to the
>     extent
>     that our nature is to have behaviors that are good for the survival of
>     our genes.
>
>  
> [OT aside] I can't help thinking that if that were entirely true, 
> there would be no Darwin awards. (And probably no me, either.)
>  
> -Max
There is a big difference between motivation for doing things and being 
competent at doing things.