[Chimaera182]

Originally Posted by Magrus

Animals are only animals, including humans, as humans are animals. Masa, most humans can't think on the same level I do, does that make me a superior being? I took an IQ test, while I had a migraine and scored higher than 97% of American citizens on that test.

I mean, really, what makes my species as a whole believe they have this divine right to take anything they want, from anything, so long as it can't stop them? To take everything in sight, and claim it as their own? Other species set up areas which they claim as their own habitat, and share it with species with similar needs. They may kill each other, but only in self-defense and for food to survive or while protecting their young from predators looking for food. They don't specifically target and kill another species off in order to shoo them from large plots of land in order to make sure they are they only species on it. They don't capture, corral and detain a whole species for the express purpose of food consumption.

Not that an IQ test really determines one's intelligence. But that's neither here nor there.

Humans seem to believe that the ability to warp the world to fit their needs makes them superior. In fact, that need for us to twist the world into something we can live in only proves our weakness. It is not a strength. I feel like I had more to add to this, but I've lost all ability to concentrate on this issue. Plus, I should be getting to my homework...

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Originally Posted by Aztaroth

So do you have the right to do something just because you can? Yes, you do! However, it's not about right and wrong, it's about what is sensible and what is just plain dumb. Beating a kitty to death would be the latter, unless you were planning to eat it. We humans are odd creatures, aren't we? Most would consider it wrong to beat a kitty to death and eat it even if they were starving! If I was millions of miles from civilasation, in, let's say an artctic wasteland, and came across a kitty, I would beat it to death and eat it when I got hungry. It would be sheer idiocy to try to keep the kitty alive as well as yourself. Sooner or later you'd both starve, while I with the kitty in my belly would live longer, and thus have a greater chance of surviving. Am I a horrible person for this? By human standards, I am, but as we've already stated, humanity isn't all that great.

So more on superiority... if you are physically superior to someone then, yes you ARE better than them. Lots of animals fight for the right to be the leader of a pack, and the leader has to be the best individual so that the offspring can be as strong as possible among those animals that allow only the leader to get any women (eg. Lions and most apes) . Of course, among humans this has been turned into something amusing that weaker individuals look at and admire. I am, of course, talking about sports. Among humans, too, it is undeniable that those with physical prowess have a much easier time at attracting the ladies. Same principle.

So is sports wrong, then? Because isn't that the same thing? The strong defeateing the weak? The physically superior boxer beating up the weaker one, just because he can? It was this very realization that years ago stopped me watching sports

Why would a kitty be in the Arctic?

The strong survive is so Darwinian, and was adopted by Hitler and the Nazis to justify their purge of the Jews and other undesireables. And I've always hated sports. Sports is just wrong because it is, not because of what you said.