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UNLESS... You're a Male Black Widow ... Then you ARE a meal AND you get to reproduce...Excaliber wrote: What's often missed in a discussion of this type is that in a violent criminal attack, there are only two roles: predator and prey. There is no third role.
The intended prey either becomes the dominant predator himself, or he ends up as food.
Food does not get to reproduce.
Excaliber wrote: Food does not get to reproduce.
"Imperial evidence". I like that one!sjfcontrol wrote:Excaliber: It that's the case, then why haven't the liberals died out? Seems like there's more of them now than ever. Not saying you're wrong, but imperial evidence suggests otherwise!Excaliber wrote: From a darwinian standpoint,it should be obvious that any animal that fails to protect itself, its mate and its young is not well positioned to be fruitful and multiply. Nature will take its course when an unsuccessful solution is applied during a predatory attack, and the "less evolved" predator will be the one to procreate.
It was supposed to be "empirical", but the spell-checker "fixed" it. (But I kiinda like imperial, too!Purplehood wrote:"Imperial evidence". I like that one!sjfcontrol wrote:Excaliber: It that's the case, then why haven't the liberals died out? Seems like there's more of them now than ever. Not saying you're wrong, but imperial evidence suggests otherwise!Excaliber wrote: From a darwinian standpoint,it should be obvious that any animal that fails to protect itself, its mate and its young is not well positioned to be fruitful and multiply. Nature will take its course when an unsuccessful solution is applied during a predatory attack, and the "less evolved" predator will be the one to procreate.
) Anyway, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!em·pir·i·cal
[em-pir-i-kuhl]
–adjective
1.
derived from or guided by experience or experiment.
2.
depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory, especially as in medicine.
3.
provable or verifiable by experience or experiment.
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True - just not in that order.Medic624 wrote:UNLESS... You're a Male Black Widow ... Then you ARE a meal AND you get to reproduce...Excaliber wrote: What's often missed in a discussion of this type is that in a violent criminal attack, there are only two roles: predator and prey. There is no third role.
The intended prey either becomes the dominant predator himself, or he ends up as food.
Food does not get to reproduce.
Unless leaving a sandwich in that refrigerator gave you lots of little sandwiches, what was reproducing was whatever was feeding on the food you were storing - although I don't it's technically correct to call flora and fungi predators.....sjfcontrol wrote:Excaliber wrote: Food does not get to reproduce.
Apparently, you've never checked out the refrigerator at the place I used to work!
