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i hate it when people try to argue that students at the univeristy of chicago are social beings. they are not. in fact, i have never been surrounded by a larger group of anti-social people in my life. but i'm not really complaining, i'm happy and like it here, so so will anybody else, social or not. why? because being social is an invididual virtue in which those that do not exhibit it are irrelavent towards yourself. the characterisic of being social, for all intensive purposes let's call it "socialism", is not affeceted by one's surroundings, but by one's own individualness. if someone exhibits socialism, they will not have problems finding others in group that are also socialistic (those in set x). the fact that there is also a set "z" (such that z > x) is irrelvent to those in set x, since there is no set y in which elements of both z and x exist. if an individual is social, they are social, and placing them within a plane in which there are more points within set z then within set x (and no points within set y, clearly, since set y DNE) is not going to change that. there is still a minority set x in which they can, and will, associate with during thier free time. while i find it upsetting that socialism is not a minority characteristic on this campus, it does make for a setting in which i seem to know just about everybody that is social, which is a nice advantage.