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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (15951)1/20/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Empathy in a hunter is a Good Thing. Wanna catch a mastodon? Learn to think like a mastodon! What the effective hunter needs, though, is the ability to compartmentalize that empathy when it's spear time.
(Read the literature of the big game hunter. Recurring motif: Hunter spies a big elk or something. He writes that "it was the most beautiful creature I've ever seen. So I put a round into it.")
Empathy with your fellow hunters (if it's a team deal) is positively selected for. Maybe that's why guys are all fuzzyhearted around smallish male task groups: the football team, the platoon, the power tool counter...
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