Re: playing at suicide

From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 08 2002 - 16:38:34 GMT

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    On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 11:01 , Grant Callaghan wrote:

    > The child finds the adoption of the cultural norms of his
    > society valuable by allowing him to fit in and become a part of
    > it.

    Well, it may be semantics, but, that more sounds to me like the
    tribe making the child valuable to it, and the intrinsic value
    sensed by the child is not taken into account, at any time,
    especially by early religious indoctrination.

    It's nice when people think it's good to fit in....

    - Wade

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