I hope you mean "assholes" in the nonmoral sense of the term. Using it in the moral sense would be wrong.
What's funny is that Carrol, who pretends to be an ultradarwinist (actually, he's a Calvinist theologian who uses quasisecular terms), has somehow not noticed that the notion that some behaviors are good and others are bad is necessary for any social animal.
Goats > Carrol
--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> Tragedy is a literary/aesthetic category. How dare you? We
> should be scientific. No, it's not science exactly, but it's
> something, anything, as long as it's not moral. Or
> aesthetic. Only idiots and assholes do that.
>
> Doug
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