Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekecs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!jeffw From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Avoiding Anthropomorphism Message-ID: <5601@tekecs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 13:13:25 EDT Article-I.D.: tekecs.5601 Posted: Thu Aug 15 13:13:25 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:38:28 EDT References: <3580@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 16 > > Seems to me that in a great number of species, sex is associated with force > > and violence (including killing of mates). There are really very few human > > behaviors (language may be one) that are unique to Homo sapiens. > > I don't want to carry this digression too much further, but I'd like to > make one point: If humans aren't doing it, it's not human behavior. It's an > all-too-common mistake to attribute human emotions and motivations to animal > behavior. Let's avoid making that mistake. It's also a mistake to assume that human motivations are different than animal ones. If the original poster had left out the unnecessary adjective "human", the posting would have been correct. Jeff Winslow