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From: throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Rape a reproductive advantage?
Message-ID: <571@xyzzy.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 21:22:46 GMT
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> al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
>> inspect@blic.BLI.COM (Mfg Inspection)
>>Any aberrant behaviour can be justified using animal models, only humans
>>can justify justifying the behaviour.
> Just as only humans can confuse "explanation" with "justification".

Quite right, but humans are all to eager to use explanations as
justifications, even where such use is strained at best.

And an indication of wishful thinking is easy to see here, since the
"explanation" of rape as "reproductive behavior" is a remarkably poor
explanation indeed.

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Where did everything come from?  Was it the Big Guy in the Sky, or a Big
Bang on a planet out in space?  Did everything evolve from a single cell
in a primordial ooze?  I don't have the answers, but new studies of
insulin, the female hormone, may show that everything was created
seperately, just as it is now.
    --- Heard on ABC radio news
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Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!throopw