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Bernard Mandeville: philosopher of Bees Behaving Badly

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Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 20, 2013 at 5:01pm: yup. the title "seasonal killer bees" can also be read as "seasonal killer of bees"

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 20, 2013 at 4:26pm: An activity stamp: everything churning at the bottom, and leading up to a thin, blue "seasonal killer bees." I had to hunt around for a file name: were there any giant killer bees in history? There are some one inch Japanese bees, and a lot of Cambrian hugettes. I settled on the latter for the file name: MEGANEURA are actually giant dragonflies.

Then came the subject line: who, in the genre of philosopher, was a killer app? Bernard Mandeville is a 17th century British defender of the modern, industrial market, or free market of vices and virtues. He wrote the FABLE OF THE BEES to that. Of course sometimes vices overwhelm the virtues, from somebody's standpoint=>KILLER BEES.

So what is the stamp about, finally? Morals are mostly by negation--a constraint satisfaction problem. You expect satisfaction by ratio. Things are Killer by opportunity and opinion. There are killer bees in the Americas now. At first many thought this would be a disaster. Brazil is now a leader in honey production. Perhaps that will work out in the US as well.

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