Dingo the Dissident

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Thursday 21 June 2012

Radovan Karadžić trained as a psychiatrist.

Psychologists (typically almost as unintuitive
as the average psychiatrist - and I speak
as one who has had experience of both
kinds of distant being)
are (only now!) starting to realise
that very young babies can make jokes
and play tricks on adults without having
'a theory of mind' (a silly, obfuscating
phrase meaning Empathy).

But any aware dog-owner
will tell you that some (if not all) dogs
(despised and 'unclean' in 'major' religions)
not only recognise themselves in mirrors
but also have a developed sense of humour.

(Of course most humans have little
or no empathy  - or theory of mind
- for other animals.)

Click here to read the International Criminal Court's indictment
of  Radovan Karadžić.

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