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Steve wrote:

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:17:38 -0400, marengo wrote
(in message ):

"Bob Pastorio" wrote in message
...

We behave just like all other predators with the solitary exception of
having the tool-using capacity well-developed. .


Not true at all, and you don't really believe it etither .

The main distinguishing haractersitic hat separates man from other animals
is *self-awareness!

Some other animals have been shown to be self-aware and there is no
a-priori reason to assume that all others are not.

combined with intelligence to be able to control and
modify those instinctive animal behaviors.

Intelligence and control are two completely distinct faculties. If
they were the same there would be no fat smart people, among other
things.

Would you rather sit in, say, a Doctor's waiting room for a half hour alone
with 5 lions or five people?

Depends on the people and the lions :-) But all kidding aside, from
the lions' point of view, eating the person would probably be the
intelligent choice so I fail to see how that demonstraes your premise.

Steve

THE primary difference betwen high order animals and low order Hu-mans is:
that THEY, the animals ,produce their OWN Vitmin C and WE, the supposed
superior
"animal" do NOT!!! therefore they are naturally healthier than we while we
suffer
from our OWN ignorance..they live happily in the BLISS of eating anything
that GOD
made for them! WE have CHOICE of Health or sickness and are too damned
ignorant
to tell the difference. B-0b1