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Thread #75063 Message #1428951
Posted By: Wolfgang
07-Mar-05 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: Obit: More Muslim intolerance?
Subject: RE: Obit: More Muslim intolerence?
Richard,
please drop the Neanderthal digression for good and take one of the much better examples from Little Hawk.
(1) You make it look in your post as if the 'Christian genocide' could be attributed to Ooh-Aah2 when in fact Dianavan has mentioned that topic (with good reasons, BTW)
(2) As far as I know the Neanderthal is usually considered as a different species. Now, humans are responsible for driving a lot of species to extinction but the word for that is not 'genocide'. So even if humans were responsible for the extinction of the Neanderthal it would not constitute an example of genocide.
(3) The reason why the Neanderthals were extinct is by far not as clear as you try it to make. You write who wiped out the Neanderthals? Someone did, or they'd still be here. That logic is nonsense. As if you had never heard of environmental changes bringing species to extinction. One theory is that ice age hardship brought them to extinction. So, the 'someone' in your post makes a bold and unnecessary assumption which is far from established, 'something' is the proper way to put it.
Nobody knows much about Neanderthals and you know a bit less than that. So, please take your example from another field.
But I'm glad about your call against asserting that a thing is so when we can't know and calling that a prejudice. Any preconceived notion, whether it be a premise that there can be no differences or the notion of belief in the 'superiority' of one subset of humans is ill founded. It is a matter of empirical data and nothing else.
Wolfgang