Map poly poster -> star trek character

[notyoueither]

Yeah that's why I said, "Although we do ascribe human worth to those without that level of intelligence"...

I suppose my mentality would posit that 10 fully functional human beings are more valuable than 10 mentally retarded ones... but I think that's a better mentality than Heraclitus' 10 Slovenians are more valuable than 10 Mandarins.

Has he ever actually said that?

[KrazyHorse]

KH, I'm disappointed, I gave you the chance to humiliate me and you didn't take it.

Sorry, I've been outnerded in this thread. I cannot find anything as funny to say about you as others can...

[Al B. Sure!]

Has he ever actually said that?

It's the obvious implications of his statements in this thread within the context of his general philosophy elucidated in all his previous posts.

[MrFun]

"Pass me the speech center of the brain."

You're Hannibal Lecter, aren't you?

[DaShi]

Ah, you didn't get the reference, because otherwise it is appropriate to post something funnier than the reference.

It's a applicable quote from Futurama.

[Elok]

The dolphin bought internet stock or something, IIRC.

[Heraclitus]

I'm not familiar with Star Trek so I can't be sure but aren't most of these aliens pretty much like humans? Like Spock is logical and detached but is still essentially human.

We're not talking potentially real aliens that could be completely alien to us; I thought we're talking in the context of Star Trek. Again, I'm not familiar enough to know if the aliens in the show are that alien or if they're like humans but taking a particularly philosophical viewpoint to the extreme (like Spock and stoicism).

My argument was about real aliens. Vulcans are fucntionally just another race of humans as far as (fictional) phenotype goes, if not the underlying (fictional) biochemistry.