| Author | Subject: Re: Why war? Why gender? What exploits whom? |
| withheld | Posted At 21:29:45 10/13/2002
Re Feldstein's statement that "we're going to both reproduce and defend our genes": I seem to recall reading a few years ago a remark by Steven Pinker that he had decided not to have children, and if his genes didn't like it they could go jump in the lake. To which I say, right on. I agree with the previous post that, while aggression may have some biological basis, the notion that war does is flimsy. War is a social and historical phenomenon, an extremely obvious point of which Feldstein appears completely oblivious. |