RE: What is "useful"; what is "survival"

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 14:30:53 BST

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Subject: RE: What is "useful"; what is "survival"
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    On 05/24/00 06:49, Vincent Campbell said this-

    >(The point about seppuku, was that this is a ritual behaviour that has
    >persisted for many generations explicitly involving suicide- how do you
    >explain it?)

    Perhaps with the same breath that explains Clinton's _not_ performing
    such a ceremony in the face of precisely a situation in which the
    nipponese culture would demand it.

    Which is to say, there is no simple explanation for the strength of a
    culture or the directions is allows.

    - Wade

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