(July 20, 2019 at 6:12 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(July 20, 2019 at 6:05 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Point taken. Colloquially, we sometimes divide humans from "the rest of nature" to do comparing/contrasting. That's what I was doing.
But, yup, humans are a part of nature, and (in the final analysis) human cruelties are also nature's cruelties.
Schopenhauer said that animals live in a hell where the devils are people.
From his Horrors and Absurdities of Religion? Is it in reference to his distaste for vivisection?
Don't try to discuss his philosophy with me, much comes across as glass half empty. I'm just curious of the source.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
