To: the navigator who wrote (3180 ) 3/9/2012 5:31:55 PM From: LTK007 Respond to << surely it's some kind of illusion, but non-benign? >. i pay keen attention to all pain suffering and misery in this world---there is rabbit now in horror as fax cuts into his body---this is a benign illusion? i can't fathom people that can't empathically realize this planet is scream every 1trillionth of a second. such as good or bad, when in reality, they just are... for me, this squares with what i see in the universe. someone once made the point that every society sets its own rules and what is illegal and abhorrent in one place (for ex: cannibalism), is a sacred rite in another.>> i am sorry , but i think that belief of his is appallingly---it is like terminal hippies that said, i don't hate Hitler, it was his bag man-- it's just way things are.But your example about cannibals happens to be right ( canibalism existed in all skin shdes by the way--it was practiced in Europe for instance, as recently as the 13th century(during famine--poor people would sell their children to the butcher who's meat was then bought by the rich--that was evil, as opposed Ritual Cannibalism of the tribes that had existence over most the the earth, at one time or another)---but i could right an essay about that--as goes back to an verbal argument Darwin and Wallace had. Wallace, held that he found the cannibals, in significant wayys BETTER than modern man---Wallace was right and Darwin wrong, and Wallace was fiercely anti-racist(and also a socialist--he lived to 92--at least when he died it FRONT PAGE news=="Russell Foster Wallace, dead at 92"--headline in London Times) and Darwin a RANK racist--it is one histories bad events, that Russell Wallace didn't really to want fame---one the horrors of history, maybe 1 in a thousand people know Russell Wallace , a 1 in 2 know the name Darwin---a man who Darwin admitted , if he was such noble a being, Wallace could have laid sole claim for what is now known ONLY as Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
