Re: Humans as raccoons?

"Default User" <defaultuserbr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mike  Schilling wrote:
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>> "Default User" <defaultuserbr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> news:687otkF2rfka4U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > The enemy of your enemy may mean nothing to you. If you aren't
>> > scheduled to play them, then you only care about them versus your
>> > enemy.
>> >
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>> If they're roughly as good as you are, so that you'll be competing
>> with them for ranking in some post-season tournamement, you want them
>> to lose.
>
> More ifs. Notice that I didn't say they would mean nothing, just they
> might.
>

Or if you're going to be recruitng against them...
Or if you'd like to hire their coach or AD away...

Anyway, my point (which I don't think you're disputing) is that you're at 
best indifferent to them, and might for a variety of reasons actively wish

them to lose.  Any alliances (say, they're playing a team you want badly
to 
lose) are tem****ary and fragile.