Jim Webster wrote:

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A Fiat shares a lot of physical characteristics with a Lamborgini.
You don't care, I say that there is some difference.
Humans share lots of genes with the mouse. We share ~99% of the genes.
However, religious and ethical believes of many people might tell
them that is not the same to eat rat, pig, human or chicken.

ethics are not necessarily rational, and often have no relationship to
the real world.

In the real world people eat human meat?
Enron, Global Crossing, et al are a rational way to make business?
Child abuse by priests is the way to go in the real world?

I think one thing is people not behaving ethically, another is to make
unethical behavior the accepted norm.


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Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'