(November 29, 2015 at 8:59 pm)Beccs Wrote: It would be nice, but humans are stupid, ignorant, bigoted, animals.
I agree 100%.
I still do feel obliged to point out that, unlike most other stupid, ignorant animals, humans often feel bad about not being excellent to each other. A lion will eat a zebra alive while it's still wriggling and struggling, utterly oblivious to the animal's suffering. Some humans, with a comparable level of self-awareness, would do exactly the same. Others would recoil in shock and become vegetarians on the spot. Most of us, however, would go on eating the poor beast, feeling really badly about it until they found a way to rationalize the act: "Damn zebras! These disgusting creatures DESERVE to be eaten alive! Makes me furious just to think about i! God, damned stripes!!!"
It depresses me deeply to realize just how few humans aren't stupid, ignorant, bigoted animals, but the very fact that it does-- the very fact that you and I are both disgusted by our species' pathetic limitations-- really should be encouraging. Other animals are utterly incapable of moral self-loathing and, after all, we ARE animals, just like them.
