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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Paul Torek)
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Subject: from Paul Torek #11 -- love
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Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 14:04:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 27 14:04:02 1983
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The header is still too baroque for my taste. people who are still confused
as to how Paul Torek can be in Maryland and Toronto at once -- it works
by magic. (and has the side-effect of confusing the newsstats, gotta
keep working on those side effects!)	Laura Creighton

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The following is from Paul Torek.  Send replies to ..umcp-cs!prometh!paul

Yes, one can love a cat just as much as one loves humans.  Yes, one can have
emotional attachments to objects, although I think it is unhealthy to love
an object in the fullest sense that one can love a human.

The differences Tom Craver points to between love for humans and for objects
are important, but I don't think they explain the whole difference.  The big
difference I see is that humans have a welfare that one can care about, but
objects don't (they do, but only metaphorically speaking).

--Paul Torek, ..umcp-cs!prometh!paul