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Is there something about cetaceans that saddens more than canidae, columbidae, equidae, or "sapiens?"
by adolph 5y ago
Is there something about cetaceans that saddens more than canidae, columbidae, equidae, or "sapiens?"
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoFor some people I have met, the answer seems to be yes. There are definitely people that would rather spend their mindshare improving the animal condition than the human condition.
- maccard 5y ago> rather spend their mindshare improving the animal condition than the human condition. How does arming dolphins improve the human condition?
- loeg 5y agoSomeone could make a compelling argument that US' global military dominance imposes a kind of Pax Americana that is net beneficial to the human condition, and this is one limb of that military dominance.
- thizzbuzz 5y ago
- l-albertovich 5y agoI think you'll need to repeat that a little bit louder beacuse it seems like they didn't get the news in the middle east.
- loeg 5y agoI'm not making the argument myself; it's just one I could imagine being compelling.
- toss1 5y agoDid you read the article? They aren't arming the dolphins. The dolphins are scouts for intruding mines and infiltrators - they find something strange, they come back and report it, and are sent out with a buoy to mark it, or attach to the intruder to float them for capture.
- dsq 5y agoFor better or for worse, horses and dogs have been alongside humans in peace and war for millenia and are adapted specifically for that. They are even classified as domestic/farm animals. I hope that current K9s do not strap bombs on dogs.
- adolph 5y agoYes, I'm thinking about the question more because I think that the use of marine mammals is somehow different emotionally even if not different semi-objectively. Maybe part of it is that horse and dog are domesticated as almost extensions of people (and the pigeon doesn't have the mammalian emotional resonance). In a larger than dolphins specifically sense, it is something significant to think about since autonomous machines will be asked to perform similar tasks and since no war is "anything goes" it will be advantageous to think about how people perceive these other methods of execution.