Yoshie wrote (and thanks for getting my name right, by the way):
>> (1) Animals "rape"? Silly anthropomorphism
>> dies hard.
And Ian replied:
> Have you ever seen films of young Dolphins or ducks
> engaged in sexual acts? I'll be the first to admit
> that one hell of a lot of EP[SB] is crap. But
> there has been some progress in the Ethology of
> animal sex over the last 25 years. Animals eat? How
> anthropomorphic....
And I say: when we say "rape," we're not just talking about a biological category -- in this case sex -- but something only defined within human society and its history, so saying "Animals rape" IS a silly anthropomorphism. -- Curtiss, who is coming to regret more and more his unfortunate choice of a Yahoo mail id.
Ian
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