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To: D-fendr
To press a point.

What point?

In terms of this discussion, what is the difference between humans and other animals? Is it only the capacity to be liars, hypocrites and fools?

The key difference is the language. Without it, you can't be a liar and a hypocrite or a fool.

With animals there is no false pretense.

318 posted on 04/25/2010 11:47:23 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50
What point?

That, in terms of values and free will, you've collapsed the entire hierarchy of being. Human=duck=planarian=corn.

The key difference is the language is the language. Without it, you can't be a liar and a hypocrite or a fool. With animals there is no false pretense.

In your description humans are, if anything, worse than animals. Your deep misanthropy is another point.

you can't be a liar and a hypocrite or a fool.

Only those who see themselves as, and act as though they are, pleasure-seeking lower animals are wise, honest and discerning.

Another "words mean their opposite."

321 posted on 04/27/2010 9:58:50 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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