Try again: You either see a pooper and crier or someone adorable or both.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JaXtpLd9H2gjjj3x5 --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 11:07 AM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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