<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:citta437@aol.com">citta437@aol.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:citta437@aol.com">citta437@aol.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>Hi, Bilk I sensed sarcasm in your above statement. We are like kids<br>acting like we are superior to those we see as "lackadaisical." To<br>cling to rationality as a sign of being an adult is immaturity itself.
<br><br>Terry<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Terry</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I tend to think of rationality as a sign of being civilised, intelligent, moral, rather than a sign of being biologically fully formed. A child can be rational too, and would be if it weren't for all the irrationalities in the parenting memeplex.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Our culture prizes things like reason, making good decisions, optimism, pride in humanity. Others don't. The two kinds of culture aren't the same, and they aren't equally valuable. One of them is abhorrent.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>-- <br>~Seien