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Are there any other situations where you look up to lions as the compass for your ethical conduct?
by PerfectElement 10y ago
Are there any other situations where you look up to lions as the compass for your ethical conduct?
- scardine 10y agoHonest question, why not? Are you better than lions? Are you better than sharks? Are you better than the bacteria in your guts? They all are pretty successful. Humans are so arrogant.
- booleandilemma 10y agoArrogant, maybe, but we're the only species that has the wherewithal to expand life as we know it beyond this one rock. The future of the DNA that we all share (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria) is riding on us.
- PerfectElement 10y agoStraw man. I never asked who is better, specially because that word doesn't mean anything on its own. Better than lions in which aspect? Lions are much better than me at hunting, but on making moral judgements that aim to minimize harm, I think I am better. If you go down the road of basing your morals on what lions do, you will end up trying to justify why infanticide is a good practice when a father dies. Or why might makes right. I agree that humans are arrogant. That is pretty evident in the way they treat other species.