RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
April 4, 2013 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 9:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 22, 2013 at 6:22 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The more interesting question is when do we give up our humanity and become beastly.
That would be pretty difficult to do, what with there being no line between the two. I appreciate that we tend to use these words as though they were somehow the opposite ends of a spectrum - but that says more about how we assign a self serving value to our own little tics - how we devalue the tics of other "beasts". Using the word as a derogatory adjective "beastly" etc. There's probably more than a little bit of leftover baggage from our misunderstandings of who and what we are, our origins in that tendency. To be fair - "beasts" probably value other members of their own group more than they value us as well.
(we could always paints the walls of it;s bubble stone grey gordon, it'll feel right at home..
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