From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 21:53:20 MDT
At 09:05 AM 5/28/02 -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>The group may be advantaged but the individual is not.
What peculiar hypostasy is this? A group is composed of individuals.
Moreover, a functioning (non-pathological) social group is not simply a
collection of atomistic individuals; biological and social ecologies create
synergies.
There's something else going on behind this discussion other than a tired
pissing contest between ideologies, I suspect. The terminology is extremely
odd. Children are `brats'. Having children is `spawning'. People who have
and raise children are `breeders' (a term I've previously seen only applied
by somewhat resentful gays to straights). I'm sure this comment will now
lead, yet again, to diagnoses of me as `politically correct'. I don't care,
I'm off to play with my brother's rug rats and ankle biters.
Damien Broderick
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