Saturday, April 07, 2007

Philosophical Dilemma

What is a unicorn? I mean, it's a mythical creature, but what would it take to be a unicorn? Is a unicorn simply a horse with a horn on its head, or is it more complicated than that?

Are UNICORNS a specific type of beast with a certain DNA? To tell you the God's honest truth, if a freak-horse was born with a big twisty horn out of its head, I would say it qualified as a unicorn. I mean, if a certain subset of critters is classified solely according to one feature of the critter, and a critter is born with that feature, how do you say that it's NOT that particular critter? Is it bugging you as much as it's bugging me that I keep using the word critter? I wish I would stop. Critter. I had my engagement party at a bar called "Critters." I wonder if it was actually called "Critter's", as if to tell the world, "A Critter Is My Owner." Or, "I Am A Critter, And I've Purchased This Bar."

God damn it, anyway, what makes a unicorn? If a horse had a horn, it'd be a unicorn, not just a horse with a horn. Unless unicorns possess haeccieties. But since I'm an anti-haeccietist, if it walks like a duck, it's probably some sort of winged critter.

Critters.

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