At 01:09 PM 8/25/97 +1000, you wrote:
So what you are saying then is that when the scum inserts a toilet plunger up someone's butt you consider them less than human, therefore all of humanity becomes less than human including the plunging scum, therefore he himself is less than human...
Ok I'll take this slowly
1) All of humanity is equaliy human
I can generally agree with that
2) If someone is made less then human then we all become less human by that amount
Oh, kind of like that "ruin it for everyone" idea.
For esample if Alice, Bob and Paul all have say 10 units of humanity. Now Paul shoves a plunger up Bobs datehole, we could say that Paul should have 5 units of humanity. By rule one every body else is now also 5 units.
Um, Dave, it doesn't work like that. Alice didn't do anything, and Bob was victimized, anyway. The only person who should be less human is Paul.
As you can planly see assining humanitiy and inhumanity is a pointless esasize.
And the platypus should refrain from saying crap like this in the future. I for one have no idea how this could be the system for assigning inhumanity. Bad Cypherpunk!!! No Security!!