#34525 - 01/25/10 08:49 AM
Re: speciesism the NEW sexism
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Jake999
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It depends where and when a person is at any given time.
In populated areas, yes. Man is on top of the food chain. You don't see many polar bears, tigers or lions walking around in New York or Boston, London or Paris. Man is indeed king.
A man on the Serengeti plain walking without a high powered weapon has another name. LUNCH. And the lion that eats his balls for an appetizer really doesn't care any more about "speciesism" when eating a man than he does when he eats a jackal, a water buffalo, or even another lion. Same thing in other parts of the world... including Australia. There are places there, like in the Northern Territory, where, while you might love and respect them, the Saltwater Crocs don't care if you're man or beast. Or sharks off the coast.
Man was simply successful enough to breed into superiority and have tools to make him more dangerous than another predator on the chain. Hell, we'll eat our own if we need to... and have proven that amply in the past.
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#34526 - 01/25/10 08:54 AM
Re: speciesism the NEW sexism
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Dimitri
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the fact that speciesism means that you hold your own species (human) higher than any other creature (everything else living on this planet).
And the problem is?
The human specie is the most successful one during the last centuries. Our specie managed to alter his environnement in such a way that it (almost) provides us our daily needs and cravings.
The law of survival of the fittest is still present, yet due to our intelligence is limited towards production (genetic codes and the possible mutations who might be good or bad).
We might consider ourselves on top of the food chain, and we have the right to do so. Naturally it should also be mentioned that a human alone without his technology and general knowledge about his environnement is as defenseless as a big fish in a very small pond crowded on the side by bears. ( A reason why I like survival ism). Neverless...
that wont be such a problem since the food chain is in order, but seening though that humans have no place on the food chain execpt eat , kill and wear evering beond its means, well it explains that we are the worst of all we have no excuse..... so anouther flaw in the humanity system,
Humans have their place on the food-chain. We can still be defeated by bacteria, insects and many other predators. As a science student, and to be more exact my biologist side, I hate to read such a stupid assumption that the human specie is the top-predator in the food-chain/web. ( We are ranked "high" in it, that's true, yet there is no THE). It is natural that an individual from a specie gets eaten or killed by something "below" him, it's the general sum that counts.
I should also add that the foodchain/web varies from environment to environment and from specie to specie. It is the total sum op weaponary and general influence/power of the specie that counts and not a few individuals.
I can see no problem in glorifying the human specie, at the extend that there are no bold claims as you came to say. And after all, we are the most successful, the fact that I can eat anything I want (which is edible) pretty much sums it up.
Btw: Since when did the rules about grammar change? Read the rules of this forum... --> SPELL CHECK!
Edited by Dimitri (01/25/10 09:00 AM)
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