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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Father Terrence who wrote (33174)3/23/1999 4:40:00 PM
From: Chuzzlewit  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Terrence, you are wrong on all counts again. Man is not above all animals. That kind of thinking is nonsense. Man depends on the total ecosphere for his existence. We are mutually dependent.

Now look at the lengths to which you go to deny your connection with life:

The suckling reaction of an infant is not an instinct but a response to stimuli created by a perceived need within an infant. The defense of a mother (or father) towards his or her child is not instinctive, but a selfish reaction.

Fascinating on two counts. First, I could just as easily substituted the words pup and bitch and you would have agreed that these are instinctive behaviors. But because you assumed the focus must be man you attribute rational thought to exactly the sameset of stimuli and behaviors! That is exactly what I meant by an anthropocentric mind set. And engaging in a subtle, but still obvious redefinition of instinct won't hack it. Instinctive simply means innate.

Humans are better than other organisms because, at least for the moment, we are on the top of your beloved evolutionary heap.
More proof by blatant assertion. No evolutionist in his right mind would argue this. This is theological claptrap.

And federal public schools are a blight upon reason and should also, by their very nature, be expunged from existence. Even more fascinating. There are no federal public schools in this country. But beyond this error, are you aware of the fact that the reason that the US achieved economic dominion over Great Britain was the existence of public education? The English were astounded to discover that American workers could read instruction manuals which obviated the lengthy apprentice system. Read about Horace Mann and his success in creating a viable educational system and the very tangible economic fruits of that system.

All advances in the sciences have not been due to tribalism, but by the genius of individual men and women, some working against great odds

Really? And from where does the money come to support those efforts?

I hope I have hit all of your points. Please remind me if there is any point I have not refuted.

TTFN,
CTC
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