Originally posted by Udie:
Unless you're Jewish right? 
see here's a perfect example of one of those people i described in my post.
totally misses the point. read the inuendo of his retort and you'll see it doesn't even fit- his implication, obviously, is that i think jews are animals-(it's a lingering artifact from some dead thread in caseyou missed that)
now, that would be a fitting jab
if and
only if, my point was that we are better than animals and that animals are bad -
it fails in a post where i imply
we should not forget that we are animals! i mean i would have to state animals in the figurative not literal sense as stated here and i'd have to establish thatas a negative for the retort to even make sense.
lolol that's just embarassing and exhaustingly stupid, but examples of the absurb are always a fun break so thanks for the diversion.
anyway...
kratzer:
"people are individuals, and their worth is based on their character and actions as individuals."
that sums it up pretty well actually. my point is that: if you think you don't make generalizations you are stroking yourself.
you make them every day, we all do. instead of pretending we don't do it, or trying to suppress what is an evolutionary survival tool, we should learn to do it right.
how quickly can you lose that reactive generalization when the person doesn't fit it?
the current model holds that we can't generalize at all, about anything or any group and i don't feel that fits examples from nature or real world experience.
if you dont like that it's fine, that's just my opinion anyway, the important thing is that most people who set out to do the right thing and have a more realistic worldview will come up with something that works well enough either way, whatever that philosophy may be, so long as they try.
