Hey Ug, What Inside That Coconut?
John Hawks weighs in on Richard Dawkins’ suggestion in an LA Times op-ed that Saddam should have been kept alive for purposes of studying the megalomaniacal mass murderer’s psyche. Hawks is repulsed by the notion, not least because it subverts justice for quackery.
Hawks has been busy and has some other good reads. Having more kids makes you die younger. But will being better educated will help you live longer? A mystery. Orangs who don’t have enough stuff end up with smaller brains, which makes me wonder what happens to humans who don’t have enough stuff. Meanwhile, let’s quit messing around and domesticate the pandas.
Hawks’ anthroblog is a must for any caveman who has ever pondered the meaning of it all.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:05 am on Friday, January 5, 2007
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January 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Dawkins simply assumes that psychologists could learn something valuable from someone like Saddam simply by talking to him and studying him. He completely ignores the fact that dictators are not only consummate liars, but are probably congenitally unable to tell the truth about anything. So where’s the value in that?