to point out the rather mechanical stimulus/response behaviour of homo-saps: they imagine that they are sentient, and that there are Ponderous Reasons for behaving like stupid jerks.
(You aren't advocating introspection, now are you? ;-)
I invited her up to my place for a little midnight bait. I said, "Come on, baby. It'll only take a few minnows." She threw me that same old line: "Not tonight, I've got a haddock."
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