> Except that all human beings, of all "races", ARE my own
> kind. The same can't be said for blowflies.
>
It has been demonstrated, I believe, that human and chimp genetic makeup is more than 95% identical. Where do you draw the line? Old fashioned racists believed that certain races are "subhuman."
Wojtek ^^^^^^^ CB: All line drawing eventually runs into exceptions. That's dialectics. Why would we care what old fashioned racists believed about this issue ? Relatively recent biology draws the line between species based on ability to produce fertile offspring. ( I'm trying to remember how many times I've said that, in fact all three of these assertions, on LBO over the years. Deja vu was an indication of some kind of unusual intervention by the systems controllers in the second Matrix movie. I wonder if these recurrent discussion themes are a spiral or a circle )