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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/18/23 11:27 AM, glen wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:517e5277-44a0-4055-adaa-2970f791bc3a@gmail.com">Here's
PZ Myers policing his community:
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The Gamete Delusion
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/17/the-gamete-delusion/">https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/17/the-gamete-delusion/</a>
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<p>I don't really have a dog in this fight other than the general
feeling that I support underdogs (and not just the ones who fly
off in all directions at once).</p>
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<p>to paraphrase one of the more notable FriAM-Sages... "people
should be called what they want to be called"... harping on the
emic/etic conflation some more, I find these discussions (e.g.
Dawkins et al) rather off-point in this regard. I understand
(vaguely) why we all feel we must make sweeping generalizations
about *other people's business*... some of it is an empathetic
response, wanting to understand, but some of it is the response of
someone who wants to control others. These *are* conflated by
circumstance in the sense that in spite of the pithy aphorism
"your opinion of me is none of my business", most of us actually
*do* care what others think of us and it does effect how they
interact with us. It always feels unfortunate that those who
want to tell others how to present/feel/be too often set the
subject of debate. <br>
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<p>I *expect* someone with their own dog in the fight to have an
insider/personal view of these things and am generally interested
and curious about their perspective up to their privacy. For
those who mostly just want to stir up a dogfight, I'm not
particularly interested in their view beyond preparing myself for
when *they* might choose to try to stir up a dog(cat?)fight in
*my* backyard.</p>
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