What makes us so important

[yavoon]

Originally posted by BeBro
Perhaps they considered to be eaten and found out it is a great thing for a cow

I'm guessing more in the realm of ignorant indifference.

[BeBMan]

Hey, how can you, those animals really can a lot things better than we can....










....eg they have more meat

[Jaguar]

Humans benefit from having each other around. For example, the apolyton people provide me with interesting discussion. Cats do not. Hence I care more about the life of an Apolytoner than the life of a cat.

[Kuciwalker]

are you sure Apolytoners really provide interesting discussion?

(actually, the question is, do we provide INTELLIGIBLE discussion )

[BeBMan]

Meow

[Kuciwalker]

btw, I remember that banner ad where MargG was going to shoot a kitten if we didn't buy apolytonwear... that one always cracked me up

[BeBMan]

Yeah, I think it is still in the poly shop somewhere (for tshirts or mousepads)

[Zero]

Originally posted by skywalker
btw, I remember that banner ad where MargG was going to shoot a kitten if we didn't buy apolytonwear... that one always cracked me up

One of the student has a website devoted to how much our school sucks. And on that website he said he will chop a kitten's head of if people didnt viist his site. He got a letter from animal rights group activists demanding not to use such humor.

He changed it to: We got Halley Joel Osment hostage, which is nowhere near funny. And animals rights groups had no problem whatsoever to kidnapping and child abuse humor.

[Kuciwalker]

Why'd he change, though? If they find it offensive, **** 'em.

[SKILORD]

You can view it one of two ways, the Creationist viewpoint or the Evolutionist viewpoint.

Creationist: Man is created in the image of God. With a purpous granted to us by that Creator.Therefor we claim superiority over those beings which are not, and which possess no divine mission.

Evolutionist: Man is the highest pinnacle of all the millenia of Evolution. We are not inherently superior to animals and yet we are , as Zero said, at the top of the pile right now.

[Zero]

Originally posted by skywalker


Why'd he change, though? If they find it offensive, **** 'em.

they threathened him with lawsuits I believe. Im not quite sure.

I think he just wanted to avoid the hassle of making them look like idiots.

EDIT: http://www.portjeffweb.com/stonybrook/peta.html

[Kuciwalker]

How can you sue someone for a frigging JOKE?!

[BeBMan]

You can view it one of two ways, the Creationist viewpoint or the Evolutionist viewpoint.

Creationist: Man is created in the image of God. With a purpous granted to us by that Creator.Therefor we claim superiority over those beings which are not, and which possess no divine mission.

Evolutionist: Man is the highest pinnacle of all the millenia of Evolution. We are not inherently superior to animals and yet we are , as Zero said, at the top of the pile right now.

So it is more or less the same, just with a different reasonsing behind it? I mean - God or not - in the end we are now the most successful species on Earth (so far, who knows when the cows overthrow us )

[Odin]

Humans think they are imprtant because of the rise of organized religion, many hunter-gather societies thenk of themselves as part of nature, at least that is what my classical mythology textbook said.

SKILORD: Evolutionists don't belive we are special, we arn't even on the top of the pile, that belongs to social insects and beetles success-wise. To an Evolutionary Biologist we are basically generalist omnivores with big brains. our big brains are no better an adaptation then say, the speed of a cheetah or the flexible jaw of lizards, or the complex cell parts of some protozoans, or the remarkable metabolic abillities of Archaebacteria.

[Kuciwalker]

Actually... I'd say our brains are a MUCH better adaptation than a cheetah's speed or a lizard's jaws.

We could easily make cheetahs extinct, same for lizards (though it'd be harder with them because of the sheer number). However, cheetahs aren't about to make humans extinct anytime soon.