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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: jttmab who wrote (68965)6/14/2006 7:45:05 PM
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"But they are the rare exception. There are far more men that drool over a piece of pornography than there are those that think great thoughts. It's been that way throughout recorded history."

As I said. Ignoble conduct is so common as to be normal. Human nobility is, however, a choice that is available to all of us, usually as an alternative or as you noted as an exception to the rule. Some people seek a higher nobility for themselves, while some expect less of themselves than they would expect if a dog, as you observed ...

"Let's compare a dog pack to a human pack. When the dog pack is threatened, the leader of the pack is the first to defend the pack. In a human pack the leader of the pack sends the pack out in harm's way [usually the dumber ones] to protect the leader."

Feel free to make your choices as you see fit, of course.

"Man is not noble, has never been noble. Man is an animal and not a very good one at that."

That comment and your general argument with me reveals more about you than the target of your comment. I have no idea what has caused you to carry such a distastful opinion of yourself and others, and I am sorry if that is the best you can say about your experience. I assure you the men and women I associate with, do not fit into your observations on the nature of 'Man'; they are far more decent and I am grateful for it.
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