> The futility of bigotry
>
> There was a good CRE advert several years ago, which showed three
> human brains, labeled "European", "Asian" and "African" along with a
> monkey's brain labeled "racist". In my own personal experience, about
> as true as you can get. Have I ever met an intelligent black person?
> Yes. Have I ever met an intelligent racist? No.
>
> Personally when I look in the mirror, I believe what I see is no more
> a true image of "me" than when I play Lara Croft in tomb raider. My
> own experiment with "multi-user dungeons" confirm this- when playing
> such games you effectively cut out the "middle man" and your spirit
> directly controls your onscreen character. Even when having virtual-
> reality sex, few people catch on, or even care, that the person behind
> the keyboard is very different in terms of race or sex than the person
> on the screen. I believe I chose to be born in the three dimentional
> world looking the way I did, with the talents and disabilities that I
> have, in the era that I was, and for a bit of fun chose to have my ...

> The futility of bigotry
>
> There was a good CRE advert several years ago, which showed three
> human brains, labeled "European", "Asian" and "African" along with a
> monkey's brain labeled "racist". In my own personal experience, about
> as true as you can get. Have I ever met an intelligent black person?
> Yes. Have I ever met an intelligent racist? No.
>
> Personally when I look in the mirror, I believe what I see is no more
> a true image of "me" than when I play Lara Croft in tomb raider. My
> own experiment with "multi-user dungeons" confirm this- when playing
> such games you effectively cut out the "middle man" and your spirit
> directly controls your onscreen character. Even when having virtual-
> reality sex, few people catch on, or even care, that the person behind
> the keyboard is very different in terms of race or sex than the person
> on the screen. I believe I chose to be born in the three dimentional
> world looking the way I did, with the talents and disabilities that I
> have, in the era that I was, and for a bit of fun chose to have my
> memory temporarily wiped, as not to "spoil the movie". ...

> Andy wrote:

>> The futility of bigotry

>

>> There was a good CRE advert several years ago, which showed three
>> human brains, labeled "European", "Asian" and "African" along with a
>> monkey's brain labeled "racist". In my own personal experience, about
>> as true as you can get. Have I ever met an intelligent black person?
>> Yes. Have I ever met an intelligent racist? No.

>

>> Personally when I look in the mirror, I believe what I see is no more
>> a true image of "me" than when I play Lara Croft in tomb raider. My
>> own experiment with "multi-user dungeons" confirm this- when playing
>> such games you effectively cut out the "middle man" and your spirit
>> directly controls your onscreen character. Even when having virtual-
>> reality sex, few people catch on, or even care, that the person behind
>> the keyboard is very different in terms of race or sex than the person
>> on the screen. I believe I chose to be born in the three dimentional
>> world looking the way I did, with the talents and disabilities that I
>> have, in the era that I was, and for a bit of fun chose to have my ...

>
> I have several issues with capitalism. Firstly I don't like the
> general "sharkiness" or rip-off culture associated with the so-called
> "free" market economy, secondly the idea in any game that the "winner"
> gets to make the rules, thirdly the high level of debt and the slavery
> that imposes on people.
>

> I buy fairtrade chocolate and coffee, and guess what- it's just as
> cheap and just as tasty, if not more. I'm not a vegetarian personally,
> but meat from well-treated animals seems to taste better, and a move
> towards less meat in our diets would enable more food to be grown. So
> ethical trade seems to be economically viable, and I believe long
> term, the only solutiion.
>

> Have I ever met an intelligent racist?