Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:01:11 +0100
Subject: Re: dead birds.
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


on 22/9/03 10:52 am, GEVANS613-AT-aol.com at GEVANS613-AT-aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 22/09/2003 02:16:05 GMT Daylight Time, janstr-AT-chan.nl
> writes:
> 
> 
>> yours,
>> Jan
>> 
>> ..... i have seen two dead birds today
> 
> Jud:
> ...I saw two-hundred - and lots of dead animals too...in the supermarket.

... brings up an inetresting question: does the quantitative difference (two
orders of numerical difference in these examples) make any difference to the
thought of the death of birds or anything else, for that matter? Or, what is
it that moves us with stories of (presumably violent) death(s)? If I were to
be able to quote the precise number of extant dead birds for just this one
day or for all time up to now, would this register as 'worse', and for what
reason if it be the case? Maybe the sense of Jan's and Jud's statements
about dead birds are themselves different: Jan might have making some
allusion to the phrase about killing two birds with one stone(d motorist),
whilst Jud was probably rather speaking about the slaughter of animals for
the food industry's profits and our swelling bellies. But I wonder about
this quantitative business...

rearguards

mP



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