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And they serve us well.
Thought the topic was cruelty.
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Derby's on - And the winner is...
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Eri
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5/3/2008 9:18:14 PM
Did I ever miss that one!
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Eri
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5/3/2008 10:54:31 PM
I try to point things like this out
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Yeti
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5/4/2008 5:41:44 AM
It's human competition that does it.
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ER
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5/5/2008 1:58:00 PM
There's some of that in aerospace design, too.
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TB
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5/6/2008 12:30:42 AM
As for sailboat racing,
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ER
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5/6/2008 1:33:09 AM
Genetics
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TB
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5/4/2008 6:58:07 PM
Actually, natural selection is far more cruel.
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Lee
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5/4/2008 5:00:35 PM
But nature does not say "hey! that's a great model! Let's turn out herds of those."
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alcaray
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5/4/2008 6:05:50 PM
And they serve us well.
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Lee
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5/4/2008 6:37:04 PM
Thought the topic was cruelty.
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alcaray
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5/5/2008 12:22:50 AM
Kindness causes cruelty as well.
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Lee
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5/5/2008 1:09:11 AM
You're in the pretending-I-didn't-say-what-I-said-while-seeing-how-many-ways-I-can-find-of-contradicting-what-I-said mode now.
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alcaray
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5/5/2008 2:36:38 AM
I wonder if there's anything we can do about it?
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Eri
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5/4/2008 2:52:02 PM
Bad news for Eugenicists
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ER
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5/4/2008 2:18:37 PM
Natural selection doesn't "breed" for anything.
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Lee
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5/4/2008 5:06:33 PM
And
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Yeti
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5/4/2008 5:05:28 PM
Exactly right
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Eri
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5/4/2008 2:49:45 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.