Blurring of human-animal distinction

Dogbrain said:
People still make that distinction?
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I think so.

The distinction is not likely to be based on science though, but on religion or ego, for want of a better word. I think if you ask Christians, Muslims or Hindus, there are bound to be those who would say that man is not an animal due to their religious beliefs. Among those without religion, there are bound to be those who would find it demeaning to consider man as an animal.

See also the thread "Socrates says “know thyself”: I say which self?"
 
I'm a Christian. Humans are animals. We are animals with very special gifts and privileges. That means we also have very special obligations.

I am worried at the thought of what we can say for ourselves upon the Judgment and God asks "So, how have you been taking care of this world I let you borrow?"
 
Dogbrain said:
I'm a Christian. Humans are animals. We are animals with very special gifts and privileges. That means we also have very special obligations.

I am worried at the thought of what we can say for ourselves upon the Judgment and God asks "So, how have you been taking care of this world I let you borrow?"
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I guessed you are among the enlightened Christians.

I was a Christian once. I remembered then that there was this emphasis that man is not an animal on the basis that man has a soul while animals do not. I could not get over the feeling that if man has a soul, then animals should have souls too since they like man, feel pleasure and pain like men do and have consciousnesses as well.

My belief now is that we reap what we sow. So if we don't take care of this world, the world will not take care of us.
 
And some so-called Phd Professor(s) with specialities in the Study of Homosexuality assert that if Monkeys & penguins exhibit homosexual acts . . . thus it is "naturale".

If people eat turkey [a "stupid" animal] . . . isn't it superior to eat smart animals, like german shepards?

Could humans disguised as animals perform morality plays infront of the like-animal species and evoke a particular sentiment, in the attending animal, that stares out of curiosty, at the play?

Animals are like retarded individuals with simple base behavior that is limited to a small sphere of influence.

BTW, I as a vegetarian encourage all humans not to eat sub-humans, so as to avoid the Karma of getting embroiled with the mundane destiny of sub-humans.

BTW, MAFIA-FOODSTUFFS, along with its cousin, JUNK-FOODS cannot vouch for ---the inclusion of retarded, birth-deformed, drugged-up, crippled or male or female gendered animal cadavers, nor the Made-in-China-Petro-derived preservatives in ---the foodstuffs that are up for purchase.

SAVE ALFALFA ---DON'T LET GMO GET HIM!!!!
 
bhaktajan said:
And some so-called Phd Professor(s) with specialities in the Study of Homosexuality assert that if Monkeys & penguins exhibit homosexual acts . . . thus it is "naturale".

If people eat turkey [a "stupid" animal] . . . isn't it superior to eat smart animals, like german shepards?

Could humans disguised as animals perform morality plays infront of the like-animal species and evoke a particular sentiment, in the attending animal, that stares out of curiosty, at the play?

Animals are like retarded individuals with simple base behavior that is limited to a small sphere of influence.

BTW, I as a vegetarian encourage all humans not to eat sub-humans, so as to avoid the Karma of getting embroiled with the mundane destiny of sub-humans.

BTW, MAFIA-FOODSTUFFS, along with its cousin, JUNK-FOODS cannot vouch for ---the inclusion of retarded, birth-deformed, drugged-up, crippled or male or female gendered animal cadavers, nor the Made-in-China-Petro-derived preservatives in ---the foodstuffs that are up for purchase.

SAVE ALFALFA ---DON'T LET GMO GET HIM!!!!
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So is it only legal implications that prevent you dining on healthy dieted people?
 
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