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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (814427)	10/31/2014 2:46:11 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB locogringo Respond to of 1584158

That's a good idea, though I haven't said it's an absolute requirement. You lied again, Rat.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (814427)	10/31/2014 4:43:19 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1584158

"What does marriage have to do with sex?" Pleasure, bonding, procreation, resulting in the establishment of kinship. This forms ties which create a web of trusting social relationships in societies. It is the basis for many patterns of social relationships in cultures. Of course it is not the only way ties are formed but it is an important source of human association. It's the human nature of kinship to provide for, protect, nurture and guide those persons you’d identify as kith and kin. When there is no bonding between us and far away people, or people not within our cultural makeup, a tongue click is the best we can muster when we learn of their suffering. Further we make a conscious effort to objectify them by differences in race, custom, dress, creed, etc to justify our indifference. We can wrap a whole alien characterization around some other type of person if we want to. Then we can put an objective label on the entity we are shooting at, which is no longer a who; a Nip, a Gook, Gerry, Cong, rag head, etc... may as well be shooting ducks off a fence post. If you want us to care more, you have to cause us to identify with one another more. An author or director gets me to cry in a movie when they get me to identify with a tragic figure, even a fictitious character. I've cried more in movies than I have learning about millions being raped and slaughtered in Africa from the 70's until now. Not proud of that, just being honest. What happens to a person who suffers emotional loss of kinship? Well sometimes I suppose they just drift in search of community belongingness. And when you feel stripped of your humanity, abandoned by the rest of the world, subject to debilitating humiliation for who you are, what then? Fill in the blank but I believe this is one source of otherwise unexplainable heinous acts.