RE: Intelligence, Consciousness and Soul, oh my; Sy Montgomery's "The Soul of an ...
January 30, 2016 at 6:28 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2016 at 6:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 30, 2016 at 12:13 am)Exian Wrote: Well, we do kill them willy nilly.
We kill alot of things willy nilly, including each other. Didn't get to where we're at by being particularly nice. I doubt that any realization about the neurological substrates possessed by various animals will or even -could- change that. Human life depends upon a great flowing river of blood. We're hardly alone in that dependence, and I do think we handle it with a little more dignity than most of our compatriots. When's the last time anybody here ate a piglet alive, legs first, while it's mother watched?
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