The Peter Kropotkin quote, "competition is the law of the jungle, and cooperation is the law of civilization" strikes me as one of the dumbest things I have ever read. I really hope someone can explain how there is some missing context or something.

If you are not free to choose a potentially competitive endeavor then you are not free to cooperate, everyone is simply coerced & enslaved & there is no cooperation at all.

This seems painfully obvious to the point of being completely self evident.

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