[cap-talk] Selfish/selfless

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> From the first moment I heard the terms selfish and selfless as used in
> E I've had this discomfort with the terms.  That's probably because the
> common usage, "It's mine and you can't have any." versus "Here, have
> some of mine." is what comes to mind first.

I dislike these terms for exactly the same reason.  The intended meaning
is something closer to "fungible".


-- ?!ng