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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%
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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?
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#31
RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 24, 2018 at 5:39 pm
I'm with Joods and FaF. I think we're mostly the same but that difference is pretty significant. If I had to pick one it would be lumper though.
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 24, 2018 at 6:51 pm (This post was last modified: April 24, 2018 at 6:51 pm by ignoramus.)
Here I was all excited thinking this was going to be a controversial poo thread! Sad
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 24, 2018 at 11:20 pm
(April 24, 2018 at 6:51 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Here I was all excited thinking this was going to be a controversial poo thread! Sad

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#34
RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 24, 2018 at 11:36 pm
(April 24, 2018 at 4:28 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(April 24, 2018 at 3:00 pm)Fireball Wrote: 10, Base 3

Enumerate.

Explicate? In Base 3, it's 1, 2, 10. Weak math joke, what the hey. Sad
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 25, 2018 at 4:37 am




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#36
RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 25, 2018 at 11:04 am
(April 24, 2018 at 12:45 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(April 24, 2018 at 11:49 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Interesting poll. I voted splitter. I think as a general rule, you can learn more about anything specific if you pay attention to small differences and split them up, vs having a more broad view and lumping everything together into the same big group and leaving it that way.

This goes for differences between humans and other animals, as well as differences between dogs and other animals, birds and other animals, snakes and other animals, etc... 

"Splitting" just seems more logical all around. Lumping seems rash.
(April 24, 2018 at 11:38 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Which do you think is more important for shaping what we are as humans today?

A couple examples of how splitting has been important: 

- We have doctors to treat sick people, and vets to treat sick animals, and different types of vets to treat different types of animals. 

- We eat other animals, but it's extremely taboo and unacceptable to eat people, unless in extreme life/death situations and only if the person we eat is already dead. 

- We have different fields of study for different species of animals, including humans in their own category.

- The way we talk to/treat our pets is different from the way we would do so with our human children.

How depressingly unsurprising.  FSM Weaps
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 25, 2018 at 11:47 am
Humans are part of the category: animal. Whatever our unique characteristics, it makes no sense to differentiate us from a group we are a part of. We are different from other animals, and so are bearded dragons. The features that differentiate us from other animals don't differentiate us from animals in general. I suppose I'm a lumper of humans with animals and a splitter with humans and specific species of animal. The splitting gets harder the closer to human the other animal is.
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 25, 2018 at 11:47 am (This post was last modified: April 25, 2018 at 11:51 am by CapnAwesome.)
(April 24, 2018 at 12:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are only two kinds of people:  Real human beings and republicunts.

You never give it a rest, do you?
I guess I'd go with splitter, based on this hypothetical. If Aliens came to earth, which animal on earth would Aliens be most interested in interacting with? Obviously humans. I think an outside intelligence would see us as different than the other animals.

I'm also a bit of a lumper though, cause in the end, we are all just flesh and blood and guts.
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 25, 2018 at 12:10 pm
If we went to some other planet covered in life we'd probably find a specific animal to focus on as well.
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RE: Are you a lumper or a splitter?
April 25, 2018 at 1:56 pm
(April 25, 2018 at 11:47 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:
(April 24, 2018 at 12:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: There are only two kinds of people:  Real human beings and republicunts.

You never give it a rest, do you?

You don’t like the fact that he keeps trying to credit republicunts with peoplehood?
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