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Originally posted by The Hierophant:
I never said they didn't exist I said that they are nothing. I implied the superficiality of their identity. I implied the malleability, the unimportance of their identity.
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To be nothing is not to exist. Many were killed at the hands of terrorist. Many people watched and developed there own ideas of the Russian's and Chechyan's
actions. If they were nothing they could not have done this.
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True, among herd mammals; among servants and slaves. But among predators, among human rulers, the will to power is paramount.
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Perhaps this is true of some, but most people is given the chance would most likely just choose to live in peace.
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free exchange of ideas = differing wills, with differing views, imposing their standpoints through language. Sure, accept or deny another viewpoint as you see fit, but if it wern't for the desire to influence, to mould, and to change other people, language would not exist at all.
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The desire to grow to change and to learn from other people is the reason for language. Well that and survival.
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<--all my utterly subjective and prejudicial opinion of course.
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ditto