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Re: Arrogance floats amongst the stars...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 12 May 2004 21:29:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > Answer: it's not newsworthy, the same way Dog bites Man isn't newsworthy. But
> > Man bites Dog??? THAT'S newsworthy.
> Dogs don't know any better. They didn't 10,000+ years ago, and they won't know
> any better 10,000+ years from now.
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> Men, on the othe hand, are suppose to have this capacity for change, for
> conscious reasoning, for saying "Just because I can do something, doesn't
> necessitate that I *have* to do something."
I think you're misinterpreting my analogy... Man Bites Dog is an old cliche for
the "unexpected news event"... you sort of (at this point) expect Mugabe to burn
down white farmers houses and beat up the last remnants of the free press so
it's not newsworthy.
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| (...) Dogs don't know any better. They didn't 10,000+ years ago, and they won't know any better 10,000+ years from now. Men, on the othe hand, are suppose to have this capacity for change, for conscious reasoning, for saying "Just because I can do (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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