[MD] Heads or tails?

[ian glendinning]

Platt

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> Robbery is a biological pattern.
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What !?! Nice try Platt to roll that into a passage of Pirsig's words,
but it precedes the quotation marks. (Nasty dishonest trick by the
way.)

Anyway, robbery is social, presuming a society that has adopted the
concept of property rights.

If a rat "robs" an egg from a bird's nest - that's biological, but the
word "rob" is chosen by a member of human society, not by the rat or
the bird. The rat is simply "taking" the egg in order to live. The rat
is the bad guy thanks to human metaphors only.

Robbers in human society have a wide range of possible biological,
social and, dare I say, intellectual reasons to do so, but mostly
social.

Ian