[lbo-talk] Punish a Pinochet: Cui Bono?

[ravi]

On May 29, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> This is actually quite a dumb quote. ;) You won't observe a cat weep  
> because, being a nonhominid, they do not use gushing tear ducts to  
> express distress. They use wauls. "I have never seen a human waul;  
> perhaps it wauls inwardly."
>

Dude, don't read it literally. Duh!! (he wrote: "more often", not  
"never ... laugh or weep"... so substitute "waul" for "weep" and the  
point remains).

	--ravi


> --- On Thu, 5/28/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>>
>> One of my favourite quotes:
>>
>> Man is said to be a rational animal. I do not know why he
>> has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. More
>> often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps
>> it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also
>> inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. --
>> Alasdair Macintyre.
>>