You're funny spirit- I can hear them pedals grinding backwards as i type.

Here's the definition as you posted it so there is no mischaracterzation of what you said.

race - 1. a group of people distinguished by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. a group of people united by a common history, nationality or tradition. 3. a subspecies, breed, or strain of plants or animals.
(american heritage dictionary)

>In the context of the definition
>(the rest of which you
>snipped) there was an implicit
>distinction being made b/t people
>and animals...a distinction most people
>make as well (when folks
>think "animal kingdom", they don't
>expect to see a special
>on some people living in
>a Brooklyn apartment, they expect
>lions, tigers, etc...).

sorry spirit seeing as the dictionary and science and common educated knowledge also EXPLICITLY regards people as animals- you're argument is weak.

The definition says animals- thats all there is to it Spirit, you can argue that they didnt mean people- but they sure as hell didnt say that and even the definition of animals from the same dictionary says

4. A human being considered with respect to his or her physical, as opposed to spiritual, nature.

spin your way out of that one.

>Amazing how
>people will pretend to forget
>how language is conventionally used
>in the heat of an
>argument.

You didnt demonstrate conventional use- you demonstrated the definition as provided by a dictionary of your choice and it defied everything you said so you had to hide by the "conventional" use of the owrd- which is hard to substantiate and even then is undermined by the fact that the same dictionary offered that the conventional use may be in accordance with your views but the official use is not.

by the way- we're not talking about conventional use of the term we're talking about its supposed scientific validity and you brought up the matter of its definition as such- conventional opinion doesnt really matter in either arena.

>Not at all. Good you think
>so. You fellows have the
>rather difficult course of convincing
>the majority of the 6
>billion folks on earth that
>they shouldn't belong to a
>racial group. good luck.

I am happy to inform you that a great number of people dont even acknowledge racial classification. But it would be funny if tribesmen of the Lithuala swamp actually thought they were less evolved than the "white" people that they never see.

K