Your question is almost like "Poll: did you think 2013 season was the worst ever in Formula one history or the best ever?"
They are most certainly governed by a healthy dose of self interest with a good bit of basic human nature inserted. Is it myopic? Who the hell knows what did you mean by it in the first place.
And every time anybody starts waxing lyrical about what is supposed to be "professional" I can only remind you a quote from a certain team principal to one of his drivers: "we are racing Alonso".
Admittedly RD coming back into the equation might change things a bit but Mercedes have a lot of customers in F1 and the whole circus is highly interdependent. You can't afford to be seen to be an arsehole. It's a bit like politicians, there's lots of big talk and rivalry put on for the show but in fact they are all friends off camera. Screwing someone over for a short term gain is gong to have consequences, especially in a small industry like F1 where they all spend so much time around each other. I'm sure Mercedes will make efforts to protect certain technologies but they will also be trying hard to be seen to be fair to McLaren and in such a small community, that will mean actually being fair to a large extent.
Pragmatic.
See above.
