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People make no sense and gorillas are probably delicious.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:12 pm
Why are people so arbitrary with the value they assign to lifeforms.
There are folks who'll flip out over someone putting down their dog themselves then sit down to a meal of steak and bacon and not bat an eye.
People will freak out over some Chinese eating frogs and dogs while happily slurping down fermented udder juice because Jamie Lee Curtis says it helps her poop.
Segments of society will declare war on someone for disposing of a litter of feral cats in the SS Burlap Sack, yet scroll lackadaisically through an article about human beings being dismembered in some Central American city.
What gives a life value? What makes us say, "you are cute and furry for a little while so I'll keep you in my bed until you devour my children"
Versus
"You have scales and less legs than I'm comfortable with so I'll brain you with this garden gnome despite the fact that you'll eat rodents and pose no danger to me."
We'll cheer when dusky, swarthy, sandy folk get blown to smithereens but feign outrage when some imbecile handles a cow a bit roughly before they slit its throat.
Is cultural conditioning the only reason a heaping helping of Kung-Pow Kitty sets some people to squeamish? Is it an all or none game where either everything is meat or everything is murder? Seems that it's a level of comfort that affords one the ability to arbitrarily deem some flesh forbidden. I've never read of people being picky during a siege.
TL;DR
People make no sense and gorillas are probably delicious.
There are folks who'll flip out over someone putting down their dog themselves then sit down to a meal of steak and bacon and not bat an eye.
People will freak out over some Chinese eating frogs and dogs while happily slurping down fermented udder juice because Jamie Lee Curtis says it helps her poop.
Segments of society will declare war on someone for disposing of a litter of feral cats in the SS Burlap Sack, yet scroll lackadaisically through an article about human beings being dismembered in some Central American city.
What gives a life value? What makes us say, "you are cute and furry for a little while so I'll keep you in my bed until you devour my children"
Versus
"You have scales and less legs than I'm comfortable with so I'll brain you with this garden gnome despite the fact that you'll eat rodents and pose no danger to me."
We'll cheer when dusky, swarthy, sandy folk get blown to smithereens but feign outrage when some imbecile handles a cow a bit roughly before they slit its throat.
Is cultural conditioning the only reason a heaping helping of Kung-Pow Kitty sets some people to squeamish? Is it an all or none game where either everything is meat or everything is murder? Seems that it's a level of comfort that affords one the ability to arbitrarily deem some flesh forbidden. I've never read of people being picky during a siege.
TL;DR
People make no sense and gorillas are probably delicious.
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 6:29 pm
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Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:14 pm to fr33manator
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People make no sense and gorillas are probably delicious.
Agreed.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:15 pm to fr33manator
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There are folks who'll flip out over someone putting down their dog themselves then sit down to a meal of steak and bacon and not bat an eye.
You have an attachment to one and not the other. I have never met the cow who turned into the steak I am eating.
It is curious though how the plight of dogs can tug on the heartstrings of humans. I guess it is because we domesticated them. I can watch a movie with a thousand people dying in it with my wife, but as soon as they indicate a dog is about to be killed, she goes crazy.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:16 pm to fr33manator
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steak and bacon
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:16 pm to fr33manator
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People make no sense and gorillas are probably delicious.
Bush meat stew
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:17 pm to fr33manator
dogs are better than people and are generally innocent beings, like children we like
gorillas remind us of ourselves so we feel like we are murdering people if we kill them and eat them
Humans are violent TPOS so we can't really do much to stop the drug wars in Central America other than ending the War on Drugs here.
Dogs serve a purpose and can love you back whereas many other animals lack that capacity.
gorillas remind us of ourselves so we feel like we are murdering people if we kill them and eat them
Humans are violent TPOS so we can't really do much to stop the drug wars in Central America other than ending the War on Drugs here.
Dogs serve a purpose and can love you back whereas many other animals lack that capacity.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:17 pm to fr33manator
yep
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:18 pm to fr33manator
Most dogs are better than most people and snakes suck!
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:26 pm to kingbob
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dogs are better than people and are generally innocent beings, like children we like gorillas remind us of ourselves so we feel like we are murdering people if we kill them and eat them Humans are violent TPOS so we can't really do much to stop the drug wars in Central America other than ending the War on Drugs here. Dogs serve a purpose and can love you back whereas many other animals lack that capacity.
The dogs typically used as food in China are a breed that they bred for food. It's not really much different than cows. It's pretty arbitrary how we get so upset about them.
I think a big difference I guess is that people don't really hang out with Cows, Chickens, and Pigs outside of farms. I know some people have pigs as pets, so they may be a bit different. Pigs can be much more intelligent than dogs.
Someone who uses dogs as working animals on farms views them in an entirely different manor than pet owners. Hell, even hunters that keep dogs have a lot different relationship.
Dogs are man's science experiment though. The bond between our two species is strong.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:28 pm to fr33manator
Today, everyone is a vigilante cop.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:33 pm to kingbob
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Dogs serve a purpose and can love you back whereas many other animals lack that capacity.
How can we know that? Dogs are little more than wolves that followed man and lurked at the edge of the firelight to scrounge in the midden heaps.
Advance several millennia and now we have tiny little yapdogs who are apparently okay to kill, but only if you pay a man in a white coat to poison them to death.
If dogs made that leap, what would have happened if we had domesticated bears?
Hmmmmm...
Time machine side note: go back and domesticate bears. Cops will think twice about shooting the family Grizzly Spaniel.
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:34 pm to fr33manator
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People make no sense and gorillas are probably delicious.
This should have been the thread title.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:36 pm to fr33manator
You completely misunderstood what people were saying in the other thread if this is what you took out of it.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:37 pm to fr33manator
It's not much different than other customs that have arisen over centuries that make little sense now. We as a species have bred dogs and cats to be companions, and we've raised chicken and cows and pigs to be food. It's hard to just erase thousands of years worth of humanity and flip it around and decide that cows should be pets and dogs should be food.
Obviously other cultures evolved differently... cows are sacred in India, Muslims don't eat pork, Chinese people eat dogs, some cultures eat horses.
Obviously other cultures evolved differently... cows are sacred in India, Muslims don't eat pork, Chinese people eat dogs, some cultures eat horses.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:39 pm to fr33manator
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You have scales and less legs than I'm comfortable with so I'll brain you with this garden gnome despite the fact that you'll eat rodents and pose no danger to me."
To the point, personality adaptation to cultural conditioning.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:45 pm to LSUBoo
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some cultures eat horses.
This post was edited on 7/22/15 at 1:07 am
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:47 pm to fr33manator
I knew a chick in college who would eat two legged animals, but not four legged animals. 
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:48 pm to Bunk Moreland
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knew a chick in college who would eat two legged animals, but not four legged animals.
Bet she would gobble on a no legged animal...
This post was edited on 7/10/14 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:50 pm to fr33manator
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People will freak out over some Chinese eating frogs and dogs while happily slurping down fermented udder juice because Jamie Lee Curtis says it helps her poop.
This made me LOL hard.
Posted on 7/10/14 at 1:53 pm to fr33manator
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gorillas
Uh endangered species maybe? Plenty of shitty humans around the earth. Plenty of them.
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