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I wont state my own opinion aloud as I dont want to create arguments, but I wish to see what many people here believe in general.
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nice gaijin said:your poll options seem to say that the only reason animals exist are to serve a purpose for us, which is a very human stance to take on things.
silverback said:However we are a higher up animal.
lastmagi said:None of the above:
Existing in an ecological system, which does not exclude humans. How the interactions are, exactly, is too much based on specifics to make a general assumption on a whole kingdom and is best for me to leave for another discussion. Sorry.
Tsuyoiko said:...or even just watch a slug slithering across the ground in my back yard.
strongvoicesforward said:Well said.
Why do you think we are higher up? Perhaps you are confusing what humans value with differences in kind.
We are not a "higher animal." We are merely a different kind of animal.
Riddle me this: If we are a "higher" animal, then why do we overpopulate ourselves even when data shows us the dangers of it? If we are a "higher" animal, then why can`t we live as peacefully amongst our species, as say, elephants? If we are a "higher" animal, why can`t we settle disputes without the violence and creation of weapons that cause misery and suffering upon many -- not just combatants but innocent others.
I could go on for a while in this vein and I don`t see how any of that makes us "higher." Sure, we can do some wonderful things, but ability is not a yardstick to claim the title "higher animal." Those things which we are "able" to do are merely things which our species values. My dogs see no value in watching TV or DVDs on them. Therefore, they need not be measured by the technology of those fields.
Likewise, a man sees no value in being able to crush open a bone to get at its marrow like my dogs can do. We are not able to do so and since we can get any precious protein or minerals in another way, we have no need to value that ability. We won`t measure ourselves by that.
We are merely different on a horizontal plane -- not on a verticle plane.
By the way, "higher up" to what???
Silverbackman said:Any animal with a more developed nervous system and complexity is higher because it can reason and think, and perhaps feel more pain than other lower intelligence animal.
When I say higher up animal I don't mean importances per se. Lower animals are just as important in the natural order of things but higher up animals have more life worth than lower animals.
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