Anthropocentrism vs Biocentrism

Humans are no more special than any other life form here on earth. Just because we are the most complex beings on earth, it does not make us any better than other animals. Every animal is adapted in its own way to survive...(humans are actually worse at this than say...bacteria)

 

You will kindly finish this?
...Let me kindly advise YOU, that your sentimental, impromptus excuse for a rant, is making me feel like getting my ‘ghetto’ on...and when you ‘fuck widda brutha’, bitches get taken ‘down town’ –

So you’re denying the fact that your subject responses have been off-topic? Hmm...Let’s review then shall we:

From the posts above I acknowledge two things. ‘One’, they lack common English syntax, and ‘Two’, they do not relate to the thread topic whatsoever. But you do not concede to this truth, right? Well, I affirm with solemn gratification, that you, ghetto sister Eliza, are an arrogant whore. Incase you still don't understand, let me set the record straight. This subforum isn't the place to critique another's writing skills. Oh, and as for the word ‘frequently’, I can inform you it denotes, ‘many times at short intervals’, and in concerns to your contributions, over a short period of days, its application is pertinent.

I was given the right to ‘bash’ you, soon as you left an inappropriate comment. As aforementioned, this isn’t the place to compliment.

Now that I’ve got that off my chest, and potentially be banned from SFA, I believe this argument is over with. Thanks, No Intent. P.S – I already knew I was immature.

 

^ "ghetto on" just lost interest in reading anything else you had to say. Waste of time.

If we weren't better than other animals then we'd be in the trees like the monkeys flinging shit at each other.

 

You're pretty ignorant. Just because monkeys swing in trees and don't have the same hygiene as humans doesn't mean they fling shit at each other. Also, even if they did do that, as you claim, what makes you able to qualify that as inferior?

When people say an inferior species I think about it in a strictly evolutionary sense, where lifeforms are more or less equal. Just because other animals behave differently than we do doesn't make us "better". Please stop being a self-centered idiot and get your head out of your ass.

 

^ Who is being ignorant now. You see my statement as prejudice (which i intended to see yours/others response) while I see yours the same.

 

What makes you think humans are better than monkeys? I'm not arguing they are better than us, but rather I'm saying that there is no means to qualify whether one species is better than another. Saying "better" is a completely subjective view and cannot be backed up whatsoever.

 

So you are saying the life of both are valued equally... and if you were to choose to save one over the other, there might be a chance you would choose a monkey? Even if say you were to choose 1 human life over 2 monkeys... you would choose the monkeys?

 

Wow. You are really something. Of course I would save a human over a monkey. It is a natural evolutionary human instinct to protect its own species over another (duh! a result of evolution...it aids in our survival). Wanting to save a human over a monkey has nothing to do with one being superior to the other. I have no idea how you made that leap in logic. Just because I, as a human, value humans more than monkeys does not mean that I think humans are better than monkeys.

 

@aznguy I find your statement totally contradicting. I guess maybe it's me... I just don't understand when someone says "we aren't better than any animal".

 

Yes. Humans are inherently more valuable than animals, given their ability to reason; their greater intelligence, their autonomous nature and capability to understand both themselves as an entity and their place within the universe.

At knife's edge, the choice between human and ant is patent.

 

Isn't that question pretty self-explanatory?