You see either a pooper and crier or someone adorable
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KpmCLdxcqNqCLfn2A --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 10:59 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Frank writes: > > < I feel empathy and sympathy for the little baby Donald before the remote > mother and the overweening father made their imprint on him.> > > Steve writes: > > < I believe that suppressing one's pity/sympathy/empathy/compassion > entirely is the "reactive" mode... I suspect our friend Donald started > down that path at a very young age and has only the barest echoes or ghosts > of those feelings remaining. I knew too many "western men" as a child > who seemed to have done the same with their relationship to nature and > animals... being brutal with predators/varmints leading to a certain > brutality to prey (game animals) to their own working stock (cattle, sheep, > rabbits, horses, dogs) and then ultimately their families (wives, children) > and could-have-been friends. They were not devoid of this, but there was > something about the lifestyle and circumstance (and social context) that > seemed to strongly encourage, if not require, that suppression of empathy. > > > I grew up on a farm and was not taught to think much of anything about > animals. We had a cow that had a grown calf that was in the neighboring > field (fenced off) that was being bred. The mother saw it and became > agitated. She took a run at a good wire fence and managed to punch a hole > in it. It was an amazing display of strength. I suppose I might think > of a young Trumper as a sort of raccoon. Superficially looks ok, but don’t > try to feed it. It will rip your hand off. At some point, for our own > sanity, we will have confront how we have treated animals (and how we may > likely treat AIs) or at least why we treat some differently than others. > I’d say if there is some kind of communication that can occur (verbal or > non-verbal) that entity has higher status than those than cannot engage in > communication. As baby Donald would mostly just poop and cry, he wouldn’t > necessarily get very high on that priority list. > > Marcus > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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