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From: Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I cannot see the relevance, we are a qualitatively different
>species even from our nearest biological relatives.
This is not true Eva. You are arguing from a vantage point of deliberate
ignorance because you are ideologically opposed to scientific information.
Which means you are no different than a religious fanatic arguing that your
sick children should be prevented from receiving medical care because you
don't "believe" in it.
Bertrand Russell said that men would rather die than think. He was right.
Machiavelli identified the two methods to control most people: deception
and force.
"Nor did a prince ever lack legitimate reasons by which to color his bad
faith. One could cite a host of modern examples and list the many peace
treaties, the many promises that were made null and void by princes who
broke faith, with the advantage going to the one who best knew how to play
the fox. But one must know how to mask this nature skillfully and be a great
dissembler. Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs
that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions." [The Prince]
"A corrupt and disorderly multitude can be spoken to by some worthy person
and can easily be brought around to the right way, but a bad prince can not
be spoken to by anyone, and the only remedy for his case is cold steel."
[Discourses]
By way of example Eva, you provide the most convincing argument against your
own fantastic ideology.
In short, you have falsified yourself. <G>
Jay
