Posted by
glen ropella on
Jan 04, 2014; 12:42am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584624.html
On 01/03/2014 03:47 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> Or the `successful' may just be apex predators, but still just one of
> many possible species of person. They feed on the productivity of these
> other species. Perhaps not wanting to be one of them, the drug addict
> (unconsciously) denies the predator that productivity... As Arnade
> observes, everyone makes mistakes, so perhaps we can just enumerate the
> wolves and note that's what wolves do but that they get no further honor.
Well, it seems to me that the ascription of honor (or any other
honorific) is a dynamic thing. Not only is society fickle like that,
but it's also difficult to predict what your arbitrary weirdo might take
_pride_ in. Witness:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/man-dies-eating-roaches-587314or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_MeiwesSo, we can't prescribe what honor the wolves get. In fact, merely
counting them might encourage more people to want to be them. I think
the answer lies in creating/facilitating wolf-eating species.
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⇒⇐ glen
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