Lets Work Together

Today, while in the car and listening to the radio, I heard something very interesting. They were talking about memorable moments in sports history. Not simply someone winning the biggest tournament or anything like that, but how the players from different teams reacted to each other. The people on the radio answered a phone call that they had received, and the caller said that his most memorable moment was when in Colombian soccer Millionarios was playing Santa Fe in the 1970's. There were two Argentines on the field, one on each team. After the game was over, they began to talk on the field, and it seemed as if they had a great relationship.

Yesterday, I was watching ESPN and a coach of a team which I can't recall started talking about the pre-game talk. He started saying how before a match, the other people on the team where 'enemies' and that even if they were friends, that had to fight and act as enemies. This completely shocks me because it's evidence of how instead of humans progressing towards becoming closer and stop fighting, we get further and further away from that each decade. While thirty years ago players of opposite teams were friends and talked, now they 'had to be enemies'.

In chapter 10, Dawkins discussed a similar topic. “members of different species often have much to offer each other because they can bring different ‘skills’ to the partnership” (181) I completely agree with this statement because every different type of species have different ways of doing things, and one could really benefit from the other. This is very important because if humans could actually start working together instead of against each other, there would be a massive difference in the way the world is. The governments of different countries spend trillions of dollars on their army, navy etc. What would happen if all of that money was spent on making the world truly a better place to live on?