You can make people like you more by doing them a tremendously damaging disservice - encourage them to do what is in their short-term interests but against their long-term interests.
I think you are right. There are very few people who look at things long term. If more people did look at things long term (backward and forward) then the world would be a much better place.
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Date: 2008-09-12 12:29 pm (UTC)