Re: virus: Re: Memes and Jello

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Wed, 14 May 1997 10:12:35 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 8 May 1997, Mark Hornberger wrote:

> Where is the nobility? The only animals that are habitually nice
> to one another, respecting the cosmic balance of nature, reside in Disney
> movies.

Who said anything about nice or noble? Those sound like a value
judgments, to me, something animals seldom bother with. Only humans can
be "nice" or "noble" or "good" or "kind" or "mean" or "wicked" or "evil".
We're the only ones with the words for it, after all.

-Prof. Tim