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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (5355)	5/15/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

>i do think our species has "built-in" moral axioms, and among them is a prohibition against stealing the young of another < My nihilist tendencies rouse me to dispute even this. When soldiers went (or go, even) off to wage war on nonhome soil, the baby on the bayonet is a routine thing. The defenders hid the women and children for very sound reasons. OK, this isn't stealing the young, but imo it is worse ... killing the young. I think the low frequency of stealing someone else's young, then caring for it/them has less to do with moral qualms, and more to do with the instinct that it's a better deal all around to just make some of your own. I think some Native American tribes had a tradition of "adopting" young abductees. But this is an anthroipological exception. Most young abductees don't even get that status; they get killed outright "on location". I agree with your observations about Cuba, btw.