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Originally Posted by Magrus For example, I am fairly certain the majority of species of animals feel is incredibly wrong for one species to claim huge areas of land as their own and kill off anything else that comes onto it. Yet, humans think it is perfectly acceptable. Just because you are incapable of understanding and communicating with another species does not make it incapable of basic intellectual reasoning and making judgement calls based on wants, needs and instincts. |
On what do you base this?
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Originally Posted by Magrus You seem to believe that humans are some sort of magical beings who naturally know better than other species. YOU didn't know crap about reality until you were instructed on what each and everything you do know is. You didn't know how to go to the bathroom without making a mess all over yourself, feed yourself, dress yourself, or walk without someone to teach you. You couldn't read or communicate effectively until someone taught you. If I took a human baby and simply fed and washed it, and taught it nothing until it was an adult, that person would be unable to talk, read, walk, dress himself, feed himself, or support himself in any manner. He would simply lay there on the floor, scream for food, mutter incomprehensibly, mess himself, and attempt to seek out attention from someone else in order to find comfort and amusement. Which...is about the same as a dog, right? |
But the human could have been taught how to dress, how to communicate, how to play music, how to do maths, and to some degree, even after that little experiment of yours. Try to do that with the dog.
Again the fallacy of comparing extremely exceptional cases amongst humans with run of the mill animals. If I cut of the legs and arms of a human, and damage his brain good so he can only eat and digest food, he will have to crawl & feed like a worm, does that mean I should consider worms as equal to man?
Plus in the rest of the post groundless projecting of human-equivalent feelings and reasoning upon animals. As in many places in this thread.