From: Paul Reilly (paul@phyast.pitt.edu)
Date: Wed 13 Apr 1994 - 00:27:01 EEST
Sandy writes:
> Broos aren't primates, for one thing. And among humans, if
>not other primates, intra-group rape is not a useful way to express
>dominance.
I hate to take issue with Sandy, but: Have you checked out a prison lately? I have friends in prison, and intra-group rape DOES seem to be a way to express dominance among human males. Not to mention some families...
>would not attack another broo -- because there is no possibility of
>offspring, hence the violation of the rape is incomplete. Not that
This argument on the other hand makes sense.
ANother model: MOST Broo are female - we just don't know it. THe Male Leaders rape and dominate them. They then go and insert their 'larvapositor' into other species, injecting a larval broo which slowly eats its way out...
THis theory makes too much sense to use... Westerners might believe it.
> Alas, I'm no moral relativist. Most faiths on Earth proclaim
>similar acts as "good", from Muslim to Judaism
Like when Yahweh orders the Jews to kill all the Canaanites in a town, sparing neither the women and children nor the domestic animals?
Or when the Moslems exploded across the world, killing any (apart, theoretically, from Peoples of the Book) who would not convert?
More examples of 'good' behavior from various religions (Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, etc.) deleted.
There are religious leaders in America who proclaim that tolerating homosexuality is an evil act...
A lot of what is Good is defined by asking "Am I doing this to my own tribe or outsiders?"
I'll write something about the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Outer Hells at some point...
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