urth Digest, Vol 26, Issue 23

Thomas Gant · 24 Oct 2006, 00:01 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: tom59g at gmail.com (Thomas Gant)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:01:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) urth Digest, Vol 26, Issue 23
In-Reply-To: <1f7617370610201029y108c685yfd04a95637704871 at mail.gmail.com>
References: <mailman.1.1161334338.747.urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
	<001801c6f43e$afabcf20$6403404a@VALUED664B84C7>
	<1f7617370610201029y108c685yfd04a95637704871 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <109338620610231701lb3eeb78tafb36df57aff4750 at mail.gmail.com>

On 10/20/06, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/20/06, Joe Smulkstis <jismulkstis at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Adam Thornton is exactly right when he points out "Chivalry *is*
> biology".
> > This ethic may have made sense when we needed to increase the
> > number of villagers or be eaten by wolves, but with 6.5 billion people
> > in the world and a human-induced mass extinction being the current
> > situation, maximizing our numbers is no longer a desirable outcome.
>
> Nonetheless, to the extent that "women and children first" is an
> evolved behavioral tendency ... and I have some anecdotal evidence
> (from, among other things, the '89 Loma Prieta 'quake) that suggests
> to me that it really is ... the fact that we're overpopulated isn't going
> to change that. Each successful gene in the genome has been
> selected over billions of years to maximize its own replication.
>
> Fortunately, as brilliant biologist and idiot philosopher Richard
> Dawkins has pointed out, we are emphatically not the slaves of
> our genes. We prove that every time we use any form of birth
> control (including voluntary abstinence).
>
>
> > "The more I know people, the more I like animals".
>
> It was "The more I know of men, the more I like my cat."
> Voltaire.
>
> --
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
> -----
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/sturgeonslawyer
> http://www.danehyoakes.com
> Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open
> sewer and die.
>   - Mel Brooks
> _______________________________________________
> Urth Mailing List
> To post, write urth at urth.net
> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20061023/c91abd36/attachment.htm

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net