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To: epicure who wrote (23467)	4/27/1999 8:04:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

Ah, yes. You, of course, would not be horrified. We were speaking, I believe, of spaniels, which have become snappish through overbreeding, and someone mentioned akitas. Dog breeds do have characteristic temperaments. My golden retriever must retrieve. She comes up to us carrying something in her mouth, whimpering for a game of fetch. I can't believe that something like that could be an instinct, what survival value would such a trait have, genetically? But, there it is, it's immutable. Why do we suppose that humans don't have immutable traits that vary genetically? I suggest it is because of people like Hitler, and the KKK, who give the question a bad smell.