----- "william" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> Todd Moody wrote: 
> 
> > Sorry, but your experience isn't normative either. You are one 
> > person, with one set of experiences, just as I am one person, with 
> > one set of experiences. The difference is that you believe that your 
> > experiences are normative for the entire human race. 
> 
> 
> My experience agrees with that of polar explorers and others, as well as 
> many thousands of aboriginal Americans for countless centuries. 

I'm struggling to keep this in context. I wrote, "No one has demonstrated that ZC is the healthiest or best way to eat." In response to this, you wrote, "I did, and do." In writing that, you were indeed claiming that your experience is normative for every single human being. Do the polar explorers and aboriginal Americans agree with you? I don't know. Has any polar explorer claimed that ZC, let alone raw ZC, is the healthiest and best way to eat? I've read a fair amount of Stefansson's writings, and I don't recall his every making such a claim. Maybe you have a source for this? Or some other polar explorer? Certainly, Stefansson did vigorously defend the claim that it's possible to enjoy great health and vitality on ZC, but that's not at all the same as arguing that ZC is superior to all other diets. If he claimed *that*, I'd like to see it. If he didn't, then your experience doesn't "agree" with him, because you'd be claiming something that he never claimed. Similarly, I don't believe Stefansson ever claimed that the inland Inuit with whom he lived and worked were healthier than all other people. If he did say such a thing, I must have missed it, but you can no doubt provide a reference to it. Personally, I think he had more sense than to make such a claim, since he never claimed detailed knowledge of all diets of all people around the world, let alone their level of health. And of those thousands of aboriginal Americans who allegedly followed ZC for countless centuries...do you have evidence that they were healthier than all other people, following all other diets? If so, please share it. If not, then you have no business claiming that they "agree" with your claim that *you* have demonstrated something. 

> Sometimes I think that the human race is a minority. 

If you're applying Aristotle's definition of humans as rational animals, I might be inclined to agree. 

Todd Moody