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> We have 'em and animals don't.
> Jim
I must agree with Adam, that this is off topic, that there are a
majority of religions that believe that /other organisms/ have souls,
and that I couldn't let this go without a reponse.
Your comment is a telling example of the reason why our species has done
so much damage to the planet and why we continue to committ atrocities
on countless other living things.
Your comment implies that we are somehow different from "animals".
Sorry to break the news to you, but homo sapiens are in the kingdom
Animalia; we are animals just like everything else on Earth that isn't a
plant, or fungus, or a virus.
The fact that most human beings hold it in their mind that we are so
fundamentally different from all other life on earth is the ideological
underpinning and justification for all of the things that we do to other
organisms and our environment.
As a result of human activity this planet is currently facing the most
drastic changes that have ever occured. Until human beings realize that
we are just another species of animals living on this earth and that our
perceived dominance and fundamental difference from everything else on
the planet is just a concept that we created we will never be able to
realistically look at our place in the ecosystem and come up with
strategies to save our own hides.
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Ryan Chapin
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