On 12/19/07 9:11 AM, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
In a message dated 12/19/2007 8:19:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
There seems to be something very compelling in the desire to help out our fellow humans after a tragic disaster.
I watch with interest when a herd/pride/bevy/fleet of gazelles runs from a lion, until the predator drops one of their own. Then they stop, and return to eating the grass, within a few bounds of the lion, but safe in the knowledge that he is occupied with killing or eating one of their own. They don't even look up.
Kind of a Shirley Jackson moment.
C
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If K is any example, it seems the stronger propensity is to screw our fellow humans – or maybe just the GOPs.
What has happened down there, excepting the ‘do gooders’ of course, it seems to me, is rapacious pederasty.
& not in the good way.
j