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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>WDK wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BR>> Da, tovarisch!<BR>> <BR>> >
...Or is the problem unique to the human beings?<BR>> > Is it a
natural bestowing or is it a problem?<BR>> > Is it a fashion, and
does it have anything to do<BR>> > with the fashion, and the psyche
of being fashionable?<BR>> > If it is a problem, an abberation, is it
right to pass<BR>> > it as a natural phenomenon? Or should a cure
be<BR>> > invented for the disease just as a cure needs to
be<BR>> > invented for every disease?<BR>> > (etc.,
etc.)<BR>> <BR>> Humans do not live "natural" lives by definition,
"natural" meaning "as <BR>> opposed to what is done by human
contrivance." The thousand and one <BR>> wholly unnatural things humans
do, gather, manufacture, possess - <BR>> agriculture, alphabets,
appendectomies, refined metal, theatre, <BR>> antibiotics, sanitary sewers,
clothing, bread, beer, electronic mail - <BR>> clearly, none of these
man-made things is a "natural bestowing," so by <BR>> your opposition they
must all be "problems" or "diseases" instead, <BR>> wanting as all "diseases"
do a cure or final solution.<BR>> <BR>> Well you can go ahead and try to
ban email if you want, I guess that's <BR>> not such a big deal. But if
you try to mess with my sanitary sewers I'm <BR>> going to fight you.<BR>>
<BR>> And I've got to set you straight on one thing where you're obviously
<BR>> crazy-wrong: the natural function of sex is _not_ procreation.
The <BR>> natural function of sex is _pleasure_.<BR>> <BR>> Yours WDK -
</FONT><A href="mailto:WKiernan@ij.net"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>WKiernan@ij.net</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>My Response,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Through your ideas you seem to be
harbouring the notion that human beings have gone above nature. Let me clear to
you that in the infinity or near infinite dimensions of nature, your
whole Earth with its six billion odd so-called Homo-sapiens are simply
negligible; in the infinitity of time, the life of a human being is for a
negligible span. It is not even a mathematical point upon an infinite plane.
Your claims about human species are wrongly conceived. Human species is just a
very very small part of nature. Your birth, your hunger, your thirst, your
feelings, your diseases, your death are all beyond your control. If we assign
you a value in number, say 1000000---out of this number, one unit of yours may
have transformed nature to suit your human purpose---or to think in your terms
"gone above nature", but 999999 is sheer nature.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope you understand my
point.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ramesh
Bhat</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>