Comments on: Animal Vegetable Hybrids http://www.boilbeforedrinking.com/2008/02/animal-vegetable-hybrids.html Watching... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:51:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Eric http://www.boilbeforedrinking.com/2008/02/animal-vegetable-hybrids.html#comment-204 Eric Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:45:43 +0000 http://boilbeforedrinking.com/237/animal-vegetable-hybrids/#comment-204 <strong>Eric...</strong> Article which You write is very good... Eric…

Article which You write is very good…

]]> By: Ninja Man: With Ninja Powers! http://www.boilbeforedrinking.com/2008/02/animal-vegetable-hybrids.html#comment-95 Ninja Man: With Ninja Powers! Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:32:00 +0000 http://boilbeforedrinking.com/237/animal-vegetable-hybrids/#comment-95 The aversion thing is a hangover of people's general suspicion and fear of blurred boundaries... cultural boundaries are often constructed in order precisely to define things like who's "human" and who "isn't". The trangression of such boundaries is especially threatening to older nationalist/religious/tribal worldviews. Check out the Bible and the Koran for example, both spend a hell of a lot of time setting up distinctions btw plants, animals, humans, sexes, etc.<br/><br/>So, when science comes along and proves that humans are about 40% exactly the same as bananas, flies, etc, it tends to upset people who see it is an affront to human "specialness" The aversion thing is a hangover of people’s general suspicion and fear of blurred boundaries… cultural boundaries are often constructed in order precisely to define things like who’s “human” and who “isn’t”. The trangression of such boundaries is especially threatening to older nationalist/religious/tribal worldviews. Check out the Bible and the Koran for example, both spend a hell of a lot of time setting up distinctions btw plants, animals, humans, sexes, etc.

So, when science comes along and proves that humans are about 40% exactly the same as bananas, flies, etc, it tends to upset people who see it is an affront to human “specialness”

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