Tophat, I posted this thread in GD:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...20#post1695720
I think the operative piece that responds to the situation at hand is:
"Even when I attend "sporting" events designed to highlight the unadorned facility of biology, I’m acutely aware of the artificial nature of play surfaces, implements of sport, the technology of gadgets that surround even the most "natural" activities, high-tech training tools, devices, diets, and medicine, bioengineered “athletes,” and environmental conditions that are intimately wrapped up in the relationship of humans and their culture/technologies."
Given that I see humanity as a bio/technological entity - I'd say our differences as regards the subject are a matter of degree and not of kind.
Always good to delve more deeply into a subject like this.
Thanks...