Originally Posted by gabdy
Are you serious?
Empathy and intelligence is what seperates us from the animals, not much else.
Why are we more important than animals?
A good deed you say, how can killing an animal be a good deed, regardless of the animals intention, it does not know better, but we do.
I think you need to review your priorities. We could all do with some more empathy towards other people and animals.
Natural Selection is false.
Your proof of that.
Yes.
The only reason we can empathize is because of our intelligence and in the animal world intelligence is king.
Animals don’t have 'intentions', we do, they have instincts. This animals instincts were going to possibly result in the injury of someone. He messed with a larger animal and lost. Period.
And you need to review your reading skills. I said that I thought our empathy had passed the point of being healthy. (Thus acknowledging we had too much). I also stated 'our', meaning that I was a party to that empathy orgy.
Do you mourn every small gazelle taken down by a lion? Every mouse trampled by an elephant? An animal is attacking your child...which do you have more empathy for and how do you decide which survives? That animal by the way could be a lion, tiger, dog or ******, my kids gonna live if I can do anything about it and in the process the other animal will cease to be a threat to others. That is natural selection and the mere fact we posses the ability to reason doesn’t alter it.
Just a rhetorical question I came up with a few years ago…why is a mouse dying under an elephants foot ‘natural’ but a mouse dying under the wheel of an automobile a tragedy?