From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 01:16:26 MDT
It appears as if Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
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|Good point; real dinosaur fossils are rather incomprehensible and hard
|to notice for the untrained viewer. However, we don't need to invoke
|fossils, "racial memories" (rather, old phobias) or exaggerations of
|snake - people can very well have seen or experienced crocodiles, and
|then the stories grew.
I personally know of cases where a creature hurt a young human which
later developed dislike for the whole creature species. When such a
human encounter a related species with larger units, the human would
naturally feel a larger dislike for these units as they could damage
the human more than a smaller specimen could.
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