[mdlug] Darwinia game at Big Lots for $4

[Joseph Vartanian]

On Nov 21, 2007 7:06 AM, Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 12:34 AM, Joseph Vartanian <jvartanian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > True.  We often forget that we're part of this thing we call nature.
> > I believe it's just us trying to distance ourselves from the animal
> > kingdom, because it makes us feel special.  But why shouldn't we
> > distance ourselves from them?  We're smarter than them.  We're the
> > only living things on Earth that actually understand concepts like
> > natural selection and extinction.
>
> That sounds like ego talking. Dolphins understand what we say a lot
> better than we understand what they say. They lack opposable thumbs,
> sure, but does that mean they're necessarily less intelligent than us?
> We measure their intelligence by our standards and find them lacking,
> but I'm sure they measure us by their standards and find us lacking.
> Did you know dolphins actually have been observed testing humans?
>
> > We have a much better
> > understanding, than any other animal, of how our actions impact the
> > world around us and ultimately ourselves.
>
> If that was true, we wouldn't pollute the land we live in, or hunt
> animals to extinction. Both of which we've done quite a lot of in the
> past few centuries (to say the least).
>

My point exactly.  We're not using our ability to think, and the
result is that we pollute the land we live in and hunt animals to
extinction.  I'll admit that I have a strange way of making my points.

-Joseph