Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2897 - 2901 (16-20 February 2015)
Undrneath:
We as a species have an overwhelming need to quantify and categorize everything and everyone. I wonder if there is some sort of biological imperative for this.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 20 Feb 2015, 12:53 ---We as a species have an overwhelming need to quantify and categorize everything and everyone. I wonder if there is some sort of biological imperative for this.
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Probably started with "things I can eat" and "things that will eat me."
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 20 Feb 2015, 12:53 ---We as a species have an overwhelming need to quantify and categorize everything and everyone. I wonder if there is some sort of biological imperative for this.
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Probably. Some of it could've come from something as simple as knowing which mushrooms you could eat versus the ones that would kill you or leave you having hour-long conversations with the paintings on the cave walls. Some of it likely also came from being able to differentiate between members of one's own tribe and another. Not to say that those things are still necessary, mind you. And while I understand RF's irritation over talking about race, I'd posit that as long as the conversation persists, the other issues that surround it (not least of which is agreeing on the terminology through which the discussion takes place) will as well.
Edit: Ninja'd by DSL on the classification bit.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 20 Feb 2015, 13:06 ---
--- Quote from: Undrneath on 20 Feb 2015, 12:53 ---We as a species have an overwhelming need to quantify and categorize everything and everyone. I wonder if there is some sort of biological imperative for this.
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Probably. Some of it could've come from something as simple as knowing which mushrooms you could eat versus the ones that would kill you or leave you having hour-long conversations with the paintings on the cave walls. Some of it likely also came from being able to differentiate between members of one's own tribe and another. Not to say that those things are still necessary, mind you. And while I understand RF's irritation over talking about race, I'd posit that as long as the conversation persists, the other issues that surround it (not least of which is agreeing on the terminology through which the discussion takes place) will as well.
Edit: Ninja'd by DSL on the classification bit.
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I'm not irritated by talking about "race." I'm irritated by the pretense that race is thing that exists as something other than a means for the powerful to oppress, control, and destroy others.
Kugai:
The base for that is ancient.
It's modern day Tribalism.
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