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Re: Why is cockfighting bad? (was: Pokemon (was: Harry Potter Lego Line))
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:04:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > > Nuclear warfare and basic sustenance are two different things. I'm not
> > > convinced you can draw a parallel between the two.
> > >
> > > What is the essence of their difference that makes you think them not
> > > analagous?
> > >
> > > One has to eat, one doesn't have to invent elaborate weapons and detonate
> > > them.
> > >
> > > One has to eat something and one has to defend oneself somehow.
> > >
> > > Only if attacked. One must eat, period.
> >
> > But in the world of predators and prey, one is attacked. One must be able to
> > defend oneself.
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> I'm only offering a quick $.02, since this isn't my branch of the debate,
> but I'm perceiving a miscommunication of intent here. I think Bruce's
> assertion is that the biological need for food and the need for the means to
> acquire food have evolved over eons into their present forms, while nuclear
> weapons and their detonation are technological products of the past few
> decades. As such, our need to eat is inherent in our biology, but our
> detonation of such weapons is a conscious response to the modern world. A
> difference not of degree, but of kind. Taken from this perspective, the two
> are visibly quite different. Am I reading you right, Bruce?
Essentially. One is at an extremely basic level, the other is not. Inferring
too much from them as a matching set is fraught with hazards. Best to make the
point with some other example.
Bruce
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