Greetings all....
Been too busy lately to do much more than read posts, but thought I'd
take a moment of down time and share a few thoughts....
Struan and Rich - please play nice. (and Struan, while you may not
have used specific words to be insulting, I don't think I'm alone in
seeing a very insulting tone in your posts).
Sandra - cool clown/fool post. thank you.
Rich - the integrity post didn't go unnoticed, maybe uncommented on,
but not unnoticed.
Ian - back to the sacred debate - it seems that you're using an all
or
nothing view of sacred. And your definition seems more limited than
just associated with a religion - You used the fact that man was
created in God's image and is therefore "sacred" while animals were
not and therefore are not. But if all of what we dub "reality" was
created by God - wouldn't everything be sacred (God's creation?)
Also, one of my dictionary definitions of "sacred" is "worthy of
respect, venerable" - wouldn't that fit Jon's assertion?
Also - you wrote "Which means that the benifits of perspecuity are
absent in conversation with you. You chose to make the word mean what
you want rather than use the word that means what you mean. Very
poetic but particularly erudite. "
If you really were concerned with clarity, perhaps a more readily
understood term would have been more helpful than "perspecuity"
(which
my dictionary shows being spelled as "perspicuity" - not knocking
spelling per se, but the nature of your post led me to believe that
clarity was important.) As my girlfriend likes to say "spelling
counts" (I hope I got my spelling right in this post - bouy wood I
feel stupid if eye mispelled wurds now) :o)
Lastly, Ian - you wrote "Witness any number of heroic deeds in war.
Where men, or women, lay down their lives to save the lives of people
in whom they have no selfish gene motivation..."
I've long held that all acts committed by men or women are done
because they have higher rewards than costs. That there are no
selfless acts. Try it on. Heroic deeds maybe there selfless, but
maybe the person does what they innately perceive to bring a higher
reward than cost. The cost of their life is easier than living with
the fact that they could have done something and didn't.
Well - it's late and I must sleep.
Shalom
David L
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