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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 10:31:58 +0100
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 12/4/24 4:00 PM, D wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:07:42 +0100, D wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So do I, but I still enjoy eating them. People are strange! Sometimes I
>>>> do not understand them at all.
>>> 
>>> I was able to compartmentalize as a kid. There was the friendly squirrel
>>> we fed and then there was his cousins out in the woods that fed us.
>>> 
>>> Before my time but my parents raised a pig. Pig farming is one thing but
>>> raising one pig is something else since pigs are quite intelligent. The
>>> pig got butchered in the fall and eaten but the experiment wasn't
>>> repeated. They stuck to chickens.
>> 
>> Yes, I imagine the more intelligent they are, and the fewer they are, the 
>> stronger connection you build, and the less tasty the food.
>> 
>> Reminds me of the old Simpsons episode when Homer raises a small lobster 
>> only to consume it while crying.
>
>
>  Yep - we can mentally split such things. Pet calf -vs-
>  Big Mac ... entirely different even while not being
>  so different  :-)
>
>  Kinda how we treat US and THEM too ... nothing is too
>  bad for The Enemy, for THEM ...

There is great good and great evil in man. That's what makes him so 
fascinating and why fighting is such a necessary sport to give an outlet 
for all that aggression.

>  Maybe that's why our subspecies wound up the ONLY one,
>  seriously weird and hostile and LOVES cognitive dissonance :-)
>
>  Ah, the poor Neanderthals. Never stood a chance.
>
>  "Six impossible things before breakfast ..."
>