So, if we change the social system, and then we will have people with five livers instead of one? Is there some society in which people have no spinal cord?
--- On Thu, 6/11/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> From: ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Kenneally, some notes and background
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 11:20 PM
> On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Michael
> Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:45:41 -0800
> > Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The existence of people with spinal cords, livers,
> etc is due to the
> >> expression of genetic instructions in a socially
> conditioned
> >> environment. Again, the fundamental error
> here is assuming that there
> >> are some biological factors that exist as
> independent elements that
> >> influence the development of human
> characteristics.
> >
>
>
> Miles,
>
> biological factors do not need to exist as independent
> elements (in your sense) for us to be able to talk
> independently of them. No?
>
> --ravi
>
>
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