From: "Phil Roberts, Jr." 
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:34:22 -0500

Lee Kent Hempfling wrote:
> 
> "Phil Roberts, Jr."  enunciated:
> 
> >My list of naturalistic reductions is based on the presupposition that
> >Evel's behavior wasn't prudent and therefore naturalistically anomalous
> >both in terms of his personal well-being and in terms of perpetuating
> >his DNA. If you are suggesting that it was actually done for practical
> >reasons (money is also status enhancing, don't forget) rather than
> >emotional ones, pick another example, e.g., celibate monks, self-endangering
> >Greenpeacers, mountain climbers ("its what the mountain tells you about
> >yourself"). But since you are implying that Evel's behavior is reasonable
> >in practical terms, I assume we will all get to see you up on the ramp
> >in the near future, eh?  After all, think of all that money.
> 
> As contrary as it may sound; I am not in this for the money. I dont'
> have any yet I don't want any, personally.  That is why I only own 1
> percent of my own company. The assertion was to point out that just
> because something can be evaluated to the extreme, oft times the
> obvious is overlooked. I can not argue the status enhancing issue, but
> since I don't care for any myself it didn't relate. That may sound
> silly, but it is true. I've even pledged publicy to give away 90
> percent of what I earn from this company's technologies.
> 
> lkh
> Lee Kent Hempfling...................|lkh@cei.net
> chairman, ceo........................|http://www.cei.net/~lkh/ntc/
> Neutronics Technolgies Corporation...|http://www.aston.ac.uk/~batong/Neutronics/


Not silly at all to someone such as myself who fancies that the primary 
motivating factor in human beings is not physical well-being (e.g. money)
but rather emotional well-being (self-worth).  Indeed, you might say I 
have been nipping at the heels of the scientistic sector of psychology
(e.g. cognitive science) for some twenty years now trying to get someone 
to notice that if Darwin was right, then Evel Knievel just shouldn't be
doing that sort of thing.

Phil Roberts, Jr.

Feelings of Worthlessness from the Perspective of
So-Called Cognitive Science

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5476