Aswad
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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady You train your animals, you don't train people. Of course you do. Every time you interact with one. You choose how to respond to them. Feedback affects behavior, and the only question is whether or not you are going to consciously direct the feedback you give people, or let it be random. I choose to reinforce desireable behavior in the world around me, and to discourage undesireable behavior. I choose to try to brighten the day of people whose mood will affect others. In this way, I shape the world I live in every day, and train the people around me to be better citizens. Incidentally, speciesism is kind of silly. People are animals, too. Just a different kind of animal, s'all. Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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