hey yuppiecowboy, that was pretty funny.
if one places anthropogenic qualities on animals, this can only lead down the path of not eating them as a matter of law. this to me is the perfect intersection of just where a society draws the line. i can't remember who is doing this with apes. it's only a matter of time that this logicallly works it's way down to bacteria and the janesian perspective.
it shows up in N. Korea which recently designated dogs as livestock, which i assume means so they can eat them.
it shows up in US in not allowing other cultures to eat horse meat, or to even use it as dog food and that they must all be buried or not used at all for anything. that's why i think the movie soylent green is so relevant.
in the hearings about allowing communist party members to teach school, it was amazing that the only one's who stood up to the budding communists in the CA legislature, were those who had fled communism, such as those from southeast asia and testified about the "wonders" of communism.
it shows up in sam houston getting paid to occupy mexico, him revolting when taxes were too high, someone blurring the border where the first shot was fired, lincoln wanting to expand america, but not into mexico, it's pretty much human to want things both ways, yet we rarely take arguments to logical conclusions, which usually just end up with some sort of arbitrary lines.
i can't remember who said it, but there's a quote that goes something like democracy is the purest form of facism or the other way around. the US is a republic, i guess was a republic, and the founding fathers tried to put roadblocks in there to slow down the federal government from going full tilt democratic as they basically knew that that would lead to mob rule.
if americans had a little more experience in weeding out those with axes to grind, they might go back to handing out trophies to only the winners and sometimes not even handing out trophies like the cy young award if there really was not outstanding pitching performance that year. it used to be a single award, but now it's both leagues and you can win one without winning 20 games or striking out 300. we have lowered the bar instead of raising it so that we can all be something we are not, equal. not everyone can play in the NBA, yet we encourage too many kids to devote too many hours it when at least some of it could be used to do something else, like a back up plan.
