laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Paul Torek) (09/27/83)
The header is still too baroque for my taste. people who are still confused as to how Paul Torek can be in Maryland and Toronto at once -- it works by magic. (and has the side-effect of confusing the newsstats, gotta keep working on those side effects!) Laura Creighton ************ begin forwarded article ***************** The following is from Paul Torek. Send replies to ..umcp-cs!prometh!paul Yes, one can love a cat just as much as one loves humans. Yes, one can have emotional attachments to objects, although I think it is unhealthy to love an object in the fullest sense that one can love a human. The differences Tom Craver points to between love for humans and for objects are important, but I don't think they explain the whole difference. The big difference I see is that humans have a welfare that one can care about, but objects don't (they do, but only metaphorically speaking). --Paul Torek, ..umcp-cs!prometh!paul