Well, now that I've brought up Agamben, I am curious as to whether anyone knows where Aristotle talks about forms of life, as I've never once gotten a straight answer out of another philosopher about this and would like to read whatever text that is without sifting all of the way through all of Aristotle's works, though I suppose it wouldn't be too terrible to, as I kind of like Aristotle sometimes, even though I don't always agree with him.

I suppose that the topic at hand is more of a debate than a question, but, I don't know. I think that this is the sort of thing that happens to people to discourage and deter them from studying philosophy, and, so, perhaps, you've fortunately never had that experience? That, or to encourage some kind of discipline, which is, perhaps, at least, in my regard, understandable, as I can be fairly off the cuff, but generally, I think, just a kind of intellectual chauvinism, and, so, I don't know, maybe it's not so bad, but it's also probably the case that you're lucky that the status quo doesn't, y'know, not want you around.