.
Our taking for granted various categories in a
heterogeneous universe while essential, was also harmful
to a
degree impossible to calculate. That categorization of
reality very
often corresponded with the facts, everyone perceived
the
drastic difference between a rock, and a person, or
between living ,
and nonliving matter devoid of a nervous system, and
everyone could distinguish
between a human and non human animal but not everyone
made
separate of what was only distinguishable.
From which we can infer that most people made separate
of what was only
distinguishable.*
Thus animals from which we theoretically evolved became
our
exploitable things, to which we
became habituated, their pain
suffering and anguish not withstanding,
which is a deplorable, lethal
state demanding a
drastic universal change to a live and let live ethos.
JBS
What will you do?
*One
of the perennial curses of thought is the making
separate
of what is only distinguishable.
L.A.
Reid, Philosophy and Education, page 82
