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To: SampleMan
When wolves hunt in a pack, they are not practicing the Golden Rule, nor altruism.

I didn't say they were. Nice straw man, though.

145 posted on 11/28/2007 9:50:33 AM PST by NonZeroSum
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To: NonZeroSum
I didn't say they were. Nice straw man, though.

What a load. I countered your red herring.

I said that animals do not practice the Golden Rule. You countered that examples of animal cooperation proved me wrong. I then demonstrated that you didn't have the slightest clue what you were talking about.

In reply you've run for cover by screaming "Strawman". Just as you didn't understand the definition of the Golden Rule, or altruism, you are now foisting a false definition of "strawman".

A strawman is a weak or imaginary opposition (as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted. Its generally done by third parties in order to make the person striking down the strawman look good. Are there any terms that you actually know the correct definition to?

196 posted on 11/28/2007 3:04:55 PM PST by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people. Socialist nannies do not become us.)
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