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> Claims like this are utterly lacking perspective Hmm, lack of perspective you say? IMHO, the ability to point at cruelty in other animals and find reasonable
by devnonymous 9y ago
> Claims like this are utterly lacking perspective
Hmm, lack of perspective you say? IMHO, the ability to point at cruelty in other animals and find reasonable justification of our own actions (which in magnitude, are not even into the same ballpark of cruelty) has got to count as somewhat vile, and uniquely human, don't you think?
- dpark 9y agoNo. Awareness of the realities of the world does not count as vile. Whether or not humans should be more empathetic or less violent or whatever else, it is absurd to call humans worse than other animals simply because humans happen to be smart and aware. Or alternatively pigs are terrible animals because they're smarter than average and happy to kill other animals (including humans).
- devnonymous 9y ago> No. Awareness of the realities of the world does not count as vile. I didn't call the awareness vile. I called using that awareness (subtle difference) to justify actions that are a great many times worse, vile. But well, if you don't agree, I suppose it doesn't matter.
- dpark 9y agoI'm not justifying anything. I'm saying that awareness alone does not make humans worse. If other animals do the exact same things as humans then why are humans worse? It seems that the distinguishing factor, is that humans want to imagine that they are special, so they get an automatic "worst ever" categorization on anything they do, simply because they are humans. Not because they do anything actually different. The only thing you called out about humans being different is that they are capable of noting that other animals behave the same violent ways. So you are basically saying humans are worse because they are observant.