At Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:17:00 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 1/23/99 7:00:14 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< Logical Fallacy Alert!!!!!
>
> All birds can be animals without all animals being birds, and all humans can
>be mammals without all mammals being human. However, obviously, some people
>can be birdbrained. >>
>
>No fallacy involved .. I didn't reverse the statement. However, this fallacy
>does not apply here, as it is simply the mindless repetition of some "logic"
>someone invented long ago which prevents clear thinking. If it is only that
>which Separates me from other animals which makes me "human", then my
>"humanity" is something paltry and unexciting indeed, terrifying to be exact.
>What differentiates us is so small .. What makes me human is to a large
>degree what I share, say, with other mammals .. and since most people do not
>get in contact with this nor make these differentiations, they are hardly in a
>position to understand what their "humanity" or "personhood" is in the first
>place .. realizing the commonness of mammalian traits, the mammalian
>assemblage, and understanding that many traits which have been misconstrued as
>"human" are in fact shared mammalian traits, one can see that other mammals
>share in what was Misconstrued as "human", and thus are to that extent,
>"human".
>
Go back and read the existentialists and the phenomenologists, and meditate on the
significance of self-consciousness, which is what makes all of "this" possible, and
see if you can revise your dogma in light of further understanding.
>
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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