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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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Tue, 25 Jul 2000 15:11:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Hmm, just a random potshot here.
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
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> > 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.
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> If what defines us is our use of tools and our ability to manipulate the
> environment instead of just react to it, both of which are due to our ability
> to reason in a self aware manner, how are a club and a nuclear weapon
> different in kind? I'd say they're not. They both multiply force, one just
> does it a little better than the other.
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> Dunno if that helps at all, or even if it's germane, if not don't mind me.
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> ++Lar
You are right, it is not germane. :-)
Or to put it another way: you go hunting with a nuke? I don't see how the
"right" (need, whatever) to use nukes relates to killing some animal for food
(which is what this was about). It's a weird tangent that won't die - perhaps
if I nuke it 'til it glows, then shoot it in the dark....
Bruce
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