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Article #1526Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
From: Peter Barbee
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 17:01
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 17:01
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In article <1399@gtx.com> al@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski) writes: >In article <1990Nov26.005512.16483@massey.ac.nz> A.S.Chamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove) writes: >> >>It seems to me that people behave very sanely, and insane or irrational >>behaviour is quite rare. OF course there is a lot of behaviour that > >Behavior can be classified as "rational" or "irrational" only with >respect to some agreed-upon and well-defined end, and even then it's >sometimes hard to tell which is which. I mildly disagree. Behavior can be classified as rational if the person behaving such has considered the affects of the behavior with respect to the person's goals. It is this consideration that makes the behavior rational, born of thought, rather than what the actual behavor is. IMHO, of course, Peter B
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!tron From: tron@tc.fluke.COM (Peter Barbee) Newsgroups: sci.bio,talk.philosophy.misc,soc.men,soc.women Subject: Re: Are Humans Naturally Monogamous? Message-ID: <1990Dec5.170147.21611@tc.fluke.COM> Date: 5 Dec 90 17:01:47 GMT References: <59261@microsoft.UUCP> <1990Nov26.005512.16483@massey.ac.nz> <1399@gtx.com> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 18