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Are you a lumper or a splitter?

Poll: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
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I'm a lumper. Humans are just another kind of animal.
58.06%
 18 58.06%
I'm a splitter. Humans are unique and different from the animals.
9.68%
 3 9.68%
I don't know.
22.58%
 7 22.58%
To hell with all polls!
9.68%
 3 9.68%
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Are you a lumper or a splitter?
Anomalocaris Offline
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 26, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Would you agree great white sharks or Orcas are apex predators?
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 27, 2018 at 9:52 am
Ok, I'm a lumper.
I don't think that having a head start makes us special.
Maybe we would be special if no other animal could achieve our status given enough time and our absence.
I think the next extinction event is just around the corner and in a hundred million years some other animal will be saying the same things, oblivious to the fact that our extinction paved the way to their evolution.
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 27, 2018 at 4:51 pm
(April 26, 2018 at 12:29 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(April 25, 2018 at 12:10 pm)Khemikal Wrote: If we went to some other planet covered in life we'd probably find a specific animal to focus on as well.

Maybe, but we'd be the only one that aliens would be able to express their thoughts and we'd be able to communicate back. Even a chimp can only express the most basic things.

Philosophy is what makes us different.

If they have thoughts, ofc.  We might be totally geeked out about a plant..and, after killing all the sentient natives we couldn;t care less about..get down to the business of exploiting useful exobiology.

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In any case...yeah..sure, there are plenty of things that make us different from x.
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 27, 2018 at 5:34 pm (This post was last modified: April 27, 2018 at 5:37 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 27, 2018 at 9:52 am)Little lunch Wrote: Ok, I'm a lumper.
I don't think that having a head start makes us special.
Maybe we would be special if no other animal could achieve our status given enough time and our absence.
I think the next extinction event is just around the corner and in a hundred million years some other animal will be saying the same things, oblivious to the fact that our extinction paved the way to their evolution.


It has been said that the highest attainable goal of human life is to depart the world dead broke and owing a massive debt that can never be collected, mostly by republicunt voters I would imagine.

If we try sufficiently hard to attain that goal as a specie, we might preclude the rise of any future species as plague like and vainglorious as we, and thus gauranty we remain special forever, at least on this earth.
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