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To: Grainne who wrote (94923)	1/27/2005 10:59:54 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Your post is heavy handed, IMO. If you think your ideas were misrepresented, you should correct the poster. But if you keep threatening people based on an ever broadening interpretation of the thread TOU, people will tune you out. Try to take the emotion out of administering the thread.

To: Grainne who wrote (94923)	1/27/2005 11:21:44 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"I myself clarified in a later post that there were some examples of cannibalism in animals but that only humans practiced RITUALISTIC cannibalism, etc." I seem to have skipped that conversation, but I'd note that since "ritualistic cannibalism" is essentially a symbolic act, it is not something that most scientists would think a non-human animal capable of. Aren't you comparing apples to oranges here? Furthermore, if you were originally criticizing humans because they practice cannibalism, and felt a need (because other animals do that, too) to clarify it as "ritualistic cannibalism", aren't you then really criticizing human ritual, not cannibalism per se? Just wondering.