11-12-2012, 12:45 PM
A couple of points for Jester:
"18" as a rights threshold might be better presented as "age of legal majority." Such thresholds are arbitrarily assigned based on norms, customs, and making crap up in a given human society.
Science is in part a game of classification and definition: without that, the logical process can't build from foundation to edifice. The entire effort of kpcofgs classification is an effort at definition and classification. (Yes, it has is uses).
As to the nature and nurture mix, yes. It's either a mix or a mess ... depending upon your point of view.
Designer babies, which is where we've gotten to standard Loungian entropic thread morph (from porcine bourgeois and deceased teenagers) is a conclusion arrived at in deterministic fashion as a solution to the problem F.I.T. used to began this thread with gnashing of teeth and rending of garments:
Make another one who looks just like him. (Riff off of an old Bill Cosby joke ... )
Problem solved, eh?
I am currently listening to Great Big Sea, Captain Kidd. Nothing can dampen my mood when good maritime music comes out of my Pandora station.
Cheers.
"18" as a rights threshold might be better presented as "age of legal majority." Such thresholds are arbitrarily assigned based on norms, customs, and making crap up in a given human society.
Science is in part a game of classification and definition: without that, the logical process can't build from foundation to edifice. The entire effort of kpcofgs classification is an effort at definition and classification. (Yes, it has is uses).
As to the nature and nurture mix, yes. It's either a mix or a mess ... depending upon your point of view.
Designer babies, which is where we've gotten to standard Loungian entropic thread morph (from porcine bourgeois and deceased teenagers) is a conclusion arrived at in deterministic fashion as a solution to the problem F.I.T. used to began this thread with gnashing of teeth and rending of garments:
Make another one who looks just like him. (Riff off of an old Bill Cosby joke ... )
Problem solved, eh?
I am currently listening to Great Big Sea, Captain Kidd. Nothing can dampen my mood when good maritime music comes out of my Pandora station.
Cheers.
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete