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To: Neocon who wrote (78566)	4/20/2000 8:31:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Of course it is "inimical" if you can extrapolate. Of course LOTS of people can't which is WHY you have exterminations of the "other" all the time and these exterminations always use as their basis some weird form of "belief". It isn't rationality and reasonability that lays the groundwork for a massacre or a holocaust. You can value humanity because you value yourself- you don't need morality or God- you only need a strong sense of self preservation. Of course- as we know from psychology- lots of people DON'T value themselves- and they certainly don't value humanity. Oddly enough all the agnostics I've met value humanity greatly. In FACT most of them are even humanists. Godists aren't nearly as nice (imo).

To: Neocon who wrote (78566)	4/21/2000 3:33:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Both protests at the extermination of other social groups and the idea of valuing a common humanity are very new phenomena. As you say, we learn to value a common humanity because we have learned that the earth is a small place after all, that what can be done to one group can be done to another, and that unity among social groups may be able to help us as much as unity within them has. We are gradually expanding our definition of what is expedient, as we have been doing for centuries.