Where exactly did I state he advocated social darwinism?
Never said you did. I said he disagreed with the idea strongly and can't really be seen as the guy who started it, as you implied.
It is said that semantic arguments are the last and least favourable way of winning a discussion. Why stoop so low?
The difference between scientific interest and fear is semantics? News to me and my dictionary.
Nietzsche didn't "outlaw" Darwin's works. Have you actually read "The Descent of Man" or did you read the Wikipedia page on it?
I wasn't talking about Nietzsche, but the gentleman who used (part of) his work to promote one of the harshest political agendas and the worst war in history. And I did read it.
As I said: xenophobia. Encrypted into their dna.
If you think that's how DNA works I have bad news for ya. Xenophobia is irrational fear of those different, not the reasonable fear of the unknown. Draw the semantics card all you want, it's not the same thing. It exists, certainly, but it's not inherent and inevitable and is not a trait of evolution.
Yezah, well, lab conditions do not exactly reflect natural
behaviour, now do they?
Except that's the point of this particular experiment, it wasn't done in a cliche laboratory with stark white walls and genetic-engineered mice, but recreated a ''natural'' scenario as faithfully as possible, which is the point of a lab.
You do realize that a misanthrope isn't exactlly the same as someone who is afraid of germs, right?
Yeah, I shouldn't have mentioned malaria, I guess. Let me rephrase it;
Oh yeah, I forgot, Misanthrope. Probably a convenient excuse not to approach anyone, I guess, s/he could give you good nature by talking to you or something, the inferior capitalist pig.
It has been and is being recorded. In poetry, for instance, which is a genre that all humans love, which is why it's so big and popular.
You try to make a correlation between the popularity and validity of a media on NMA, of all places?
Love is a footnote in history, my friend. It is not important whatsoever. It's one of those lies grown-ups tell their kids so that the kids would enjoy life a little more.
Funny how all love songs tell me about how shitty love is. How much it hurts. Funny how if I want to find an empathic, caring person, I have to go to a shrink who charges 60 euros per hour.
Yeah, this species is all about love, innit?
Now you have me utterly baffled. You just proved my point. And I am sorry your life is so sad, too, especially if you think what you are buying is anything but a product. Love is so fucking wonderful. Best feeling in the world. The fact you don't feel/believe in it doesn't mean it does not exist.
Behavioural studies show that cats basically hone their skills on their pray. It's education. And only well-fed animals play with their pray. Hungry animals always go for a quick kill, which saves them calories.
And you are lecturing me about semantics? My point is not that they all do, but that some do.
Which is something I already wrote, thank you very much.
And that would be where?
Also, bothering to change my nickname to make such an easy and lame pun? Come on, you can do better than that.
EDIT: Christ, you guys are using xenophobia like it's in fashion or something. WW2 (which barely mentionning does not invoke Godwin's Law, come on) had scores of it, but the invasion of Iraq had at least as much political and rational thinking to justify it. Not that it was legitimate or even useful by any means.
And hornets destroy a beehive when it becomes a danger to itself and/or occupies it's territory. Not the same thing as just hating bees because almighty DNA says so. Anyways it's not xenophibia snce they are not the same species.
