(October 23, 2009 at 3:29 pm)Saerules Wrote: And I suppose that I need to step in front of a moving vehicle... to understand what it is like to be run over by a truck? Or perhaps I need to play the video game to understand what it is like to play the game?
Not at all. I read a very interesting article recently: (My internet is being frustratingly slow... You can find it http://discover.coverleaf.com/discoverma...00910?pg=7 probably. It is called 'The Empathy Instinct', and it is written by primatologist named Frans de Wall) I have the article right in front of me (page 54 in this October's Discover magazine)... and I'll make sure I get a better link later this weekend if this one proves to be a dud or if you don't want to click more than one button. Either way, it is definitely a worthwhile read about empathy and its origins.
Anyway... I don't even like the sugar high one gets from soda... why would I want a high like one would get from 'drugs'?
Come on, comparing trying a drug in a controlled environment when you know with a huge degree of certainty that nothing will go wrong with an incident likely to result in death? That's retarded
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