On May 15, 5:08Â pm, James A. Donald
echeque.com> wrote:> Howard Brazee:
>
>>> No species on this planet is a light minute from me.
>>> Â Even your species.
>
> veritas
>
>> Then why do we so dominate this planet?
>
> It is a difference of degree, not kind. Â Every race has
> a winner, but that does not mean the losers were
> stationary.
>
> And we are not winning by all that much. Â Where I am
> right now, looks like fruit bats are winning and
> fruit farmers are losing.
>
> --
> Â ----------------------
> We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because
> of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this
> right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.
>
>
http://www.jim.com/Â Â Â James A. Donald
I didn't say we weren't the most self-destructive animal on the
planet, only different than any before us. As for using racing horses
as a metaphor. Compared to the rest of the animals, we would be
rounding to the finish line as they were trying to yank the starting
gate off the track. The other animals would have taken about two
steps. How many have built a ship when they couldn't swim? Rode
other animals when they couldn't go fast enough, then trains, then
cars, then airplanes? What other animal has appeared in 60,000 years
and flown to the moon and back? What animal do you know that can
crash landers on Mars because they forgot to convert metrics to
inches? Not a one. We are unique, we still are trying to figure out
how we became this special. So wonderful, terrible, unbelievably
violent, and helpful all at once. All so quickly, and yet we are self-
destructive.
Regards,
--
Ken Hogan
"Truth does not give a damn what we conceive. We survive or perish
according to our ability to discern the truth correctly and act upon
it." - Ken Hogan
www.veritasnovel.com
