Did you put the dewinged Greenhead out of its misery? ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sun, Jan 12, 2020, 2:53 PM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, the logic seems right. > > > > But … just to take the Epstein case … doesn’t that presume that abusing > women feels good? > > > > I just have never see how that works, > > > > In the marshland around where grew up, there were these enormous flies, > with beaklike mouthparts for biting…Greenheads, they were called. They > used to come into our barn at night, and then congregate on the inside of > the windows during the day, frantic to get out. I once caught one and took > its wings off to see what would happen. I never did it again. It didn’t > feel good. > > > > So, either having great power over people changes the nature of what feels > good, OR, there are some people for whom making others feel bad makes them > feel good. I would say that these latter folks need to be quarantined. And > if keeping people from becoming wealthy is prophylactic, I say tax the > daylights out of the rich. > > > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels > *Sent:* Sunday, January 12, 2020 11:54 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] more Epstein fallout > > > > Nick writes: > > > > “Why does the potentiality entail the desire? > > I *can* plunge a dinner fork into the back of my hand, right now. > > Surely, you don’t expect me to do so, just because I can.” > > > > The premise is that people do things that feel good, and things that are > apparently free from negative consequences. > > Neither would be true with this use of a dinner fork. It might feel good > to plunge the dinner fork into the hand of an impolite dinner guest. > Whether that would be free of consequences would depend on the relative > quality of your respective lawyers and the physical strength of your > guest. > > > > Marcus > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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