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From: [email protected] (mpa)
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Subject: Re: Frankenstein (was Dystopia cont.)
Date: 11 Sep 1995 00:31:48 -0400
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Sourcerer ([email protected]) wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (mpa) wrote:
> >It would seem to be more likely that an action like that might be a
> >description of the marker of the *beginning* of the age of "humanity"
> >rather than the end. The growth of leisure time and the concretion of
> >environment promote reflection and can lead to the development of a data
> >set called "humanity"(and its characteristics).
> Why do we seek a definition of "human" and "humanity" beyond "a particular
> set of organisms, which, odds have it, produce viable offspring?"
> Being "human" is simply the expression of a specific genetic complex, just
> as being ursine is the expression of a specific genetic complex.
Or a comment upon being so. "Humans" can behave in "Inhuman" ways. "That
animal", "What a *"(*=rat, dog, weasal, bird, ass...). It is a particular
way of behaving and thinking that determines the humanity part of our
identification modifying the definition from biology.
.mpa
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