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Ellie Arroway wrote
I picked it up about a week ago and have been reading it. I don't really find it nearly as interesting as Carl Sagan's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors  I don't know, Dawkins is bland compared to Sagan in my opinion. I like how Sagan exlpains why we say "Fuck You" and most of the time don't even know what it means (referring to chimps). |
OK. I will pick up Sagan's book but, I wanna know in a nutshell, why do we say "fuck you," or its equivalent across the spectrum of the species, according to Sagan?
It's learned behavior, I assume, but why are we compelled to perpetuate it? And, of course, we know it's supposed to be a grave insult, but why should that be, logically?