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When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'

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When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 4:16 pm
(February 6, 2013 at 4:10 pm)Annik Wrote: We didn't out-think them, we out-fucked them.

And maybe out-fought and ate them too

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/m...es-journal
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 4:21 pm
From the first homo species I think (either homo hablis or homo erectus), those would be the first humans. Australopithecus would have essentially been like a chimp on two legs. Some people would say the other great apes are people as well and ought to be given human rights but I'm not sure I agree.
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 4:58 pm
If a cow could talk it would probably generate a lot of sympathy, if a polar bear could talk though i think there would be a drop in the charity that people are putting forward for them, i think they would be mainly thinking "FUCK I WANT TO RIP OUT A BABY SEALS HEART AND EAT IT AND SPLASH AROUND IN THE BLOOD"
Its probably better for their cause that they just show video footage of them looking confused on a melting ice block


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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:00 pm (This post was last modified: February 6, 2013 at 5:00 pm by Zone.)
We did interbreed with neanderthals, humans outside of Africa have up to 4% neanderthal DNA. But I don't think they were really that much different from us.
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:03 pm
(February 6, 2013 at 4:58 pm)paulpablo Wrote: If a cow could talk it would probably generate a lot of sympathy, if a polar bear could talk though i think there would be a drop in the charity that people are putting forward for them, i think they would be mainly thinking "FUCK I WANT TO RIP OUT A BABY SEALS HEART AND EAT IT AND SPLASH AROUND IN THE BLOOD"
Its probably better for their cause that they just show video footage of them looking confused on a melting ice block

It's all about the marketing.

Bears are pretty sick, though... ever smelled fresh bear shit? My own dog wouldn't eat it. Angel
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:06 pm
Bears are cute. Especially polar bears.





Do polar bears shit in the pool?
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:10 pm
Any animal type can be domesticated. Not that every animal of that type can be, of course Smile
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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Quote:When you get right down to it, human beings are nothing more than ordinary jungle beasts. Savages. No different from the Cro Magnon people who lived twenty five thousand years ago. No different. Our DNA hasn't changed substantially in a hundred thousand years. We're still operating out of the lower brain. The reptilian brain. Fight or flight. Kill or be killed. We like to think we've evolved and advanced because we can build a computer, fly an airplane, travel underwater, we can write a sonnet, paint a painting, compose an opera. But you know something? We're barely out of the jungle on this planet. Barely out of the fucking jungle. What we are, is semi-civilized beasts, with baseball caps and automatic weapons.

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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:16 pm
(February 6, 2013 at 5:10 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Any animal type can be domesticated. Not that every animal of that type can be, of course Smile

Like humans.



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RE: When do we cross the line from 'animal' to 'person?'
February 6, 2013 at 5:17 pm
(February 6, 2013 at 4:16 pm)Insanity x Wrote: And maybe out-fought and ate them too

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/m...es-journal

I've seen this story before. This could've been a factor in it as well.
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