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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:27:38 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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On 04/12/2024 13:07, D wrote:
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> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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>> On 04/12/2024 10:10, D wrote:
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>>>
>>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, Robert Riches wrote:
>>>
>>
>>>> About 45 years ago, while eating in the college dorm cafeteria, I
>>>> noticed the piece of "chicken" on my plate was a little tougher
>>>> and drier than most chicken, and the arrangement of the bones did
>>>> not appear to be consistent with any piece of chicken I had ever
>>>> seen.  I had eaten rabbit a few years earlier, when my uncle was
>>>> raising them, so I started to suspect the "chicken" was really
>>>> rabbit.  My suspicion was confirmed when I heard a girl shriek
>>>> rather unhappily from a couple of tables away, "We're eating
>>>> BUNNIES!"
>>>
>>> How strange! How come they didn't just say that todays special was 
>>> rabbit? Or maybe there was an error somewhere with the delivery and 
>>> some boxed got mixed up?
>>
>> People have childhood memories of Peter rabbit and Bambi.
> 
> So do I, but I still enjoy eating them. People are strange! Sometimes I 
> do not understand them at all.

People as children get to associate words, images ideas with emotions.

So 'all snakes BAD!! RUN. Bambi CUTE  - cuddle  - don't eat.'

Then when - or if - they grow up, they replace them with more 
sophisticated and rational judgements.

-- 
Karl Marx said religion is the opium of the people.
But Marxism is the crack cocaine.