What makes humanity special?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Velociryx
Indeed....Google confirms those suspicions. Type in "orca porn" on a google search...fifth entry down when I did...ech....*shakes head*

-=Vel=-

Jewish dominance in the porn industry?

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
We can have sex whenever we want, instead of having to wait for the female to be fertile.

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I think we do need to wait for the female to be fertile, and then some...

But I quess we don't have, um, "heat"...

[Geronimo]

Simple self interest. Humans are special to humans other creatures are special to other creatures. Nothing wrong with such an approach.

Also from a practical point of view we can only have in depth communication with humans and for the most part can only have communication of any kind with humans. This allows us to form various social contracts with them which we can't arrange with the other creatures we have encountered apart from making selfless one sided concessions to their interests.

In sum humans are special because we can all relate to them on an entirely different level from any other things we might try to relate to.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Krill
We aren't special. There are bacteria that I consider more special than most of humanity.

tell me more about these special bacteria. I'm taking a refresher course in micro atm (damn taxonomy keeps getting tweaked) and to me it seems like their specialness is restricted entirely to interesting biochemical gadgets.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by loinburger
Maybe they're sentient, but they don't have porn

but they have universal casual sex instead.

[Guynemer]

I'd just like to state for the record how I've never been more disturbed to be correct about an assumption in my entire life as I am right now in regards to orca porn.

[Kuciwalker]

[chequita guevara]

We're genetically coded to think humans are special.

[Winston]

We're the only species on record to have developed so many different types of cheese.

And we're the only ones who get sooo bored we'd even start thinking whether we're special.

[chequita guevara]

What does limburger taste like?

[Winston]

Cheese, presumably.

[chequita guevara]

They sell limburger at my supermarket. I'm slightly tempted to buy it, though I sniffed it, and it smelt rotten.

[Winston]

Yeah well, it sounds a bit German.

[BeBMan]

Spiders are superior to humans. They have eight legs, humans only two. Even if we count our arms in too, they're still better. Plus lots of humans are scared when they see spiders. They wouldn't be if spiders weren't a threat to us.

[Az]

Specialness is a value judgement. Only humans can make value judgements. Thus, humans are what make humans special.

On the practical side of things, the question "are we special, or not?" carries no importance whatsoever.