Your claim that there is nothing special about humans is a specious claim that you offer up in total disregard of literally every observable fact about human beings. No other creature has awareness of mortality. No other creature writes down its thoughts so that future generations can learn from their observation, or…

Literally everything you just said is made-up garbage. Cancer is a disease of replication. You just don’t even know what the hell “disease” even means. But you don’t let your complete and total ignorance prevent you from having opinions on the internets.

We DO experiment on humans, after we use animals to determine that it won’t be a waste of time (ineffective) or harmful (toxicity, interactions).

It would be interesting to look up their campaign contributors and see whether the cable companies had supported these six guys more than a random selection of six who supported the measure.

Holy crap. 8 year old cars are old where you live? Holy hell. There are still Super Beetles on the roads in New Mexico.

Obviously the destruction of a life without any benefit would tip the scales in my book. Every destructive action SHOULD provoke a rational being to be introspective and weigh his actions. But then, if he decides that one outcome is tolerable to him and another is not, then he takes action to get the outcome he…

If I am a member of a species that is capable of altruism, then the most altruistic thing I can do is to make certain that my species continues into the future, because many altruistic decisions will not require the suffering of even a few members of other species.

If it were discovered that autism were caused by a defective protein fold, which could be replaced by treatment with an enzyme which could give your child a completely ordinary brain function within 3 years of treatment, would you undertake treatment, or leave him as he is?

I am not weaseling, I answered precisely. If I did not make it stupid and simple enough for you to comprehend it, my apologies.

I do not argue that monkeys SHOULD suffer. I say that humans SHOULD prioritize their own species.

I am doing so because conveying benefit to my species is evolutionarily beneficial to my species, and I assume all other species will act to their own benefit within the range of their abilities.

It depends on whether it is an innocent or a combatant, and whether the combatants are aggressors or defenders. If I am in their nation as an invader, without a provocation, 0. If I am in their nation to remove a despot who attacked my nation, 1 to 5 combatants, 0 civilians. If they are in my nation attacking me and…

I find those who seek a philosophically pure course of action without regard to outcome to be irrational. You may either choose your desired outcome and accept the course of action that must come with it, or else choose the course of action and accept whatever outcome comes from that.

They don’t know that they’re suffering because they’ve always been that way. But there are places autistic people simply avoid, precisely because they find them intolerable. That intolerability of excessive noise, visual stimulus, and social pressures is called suffering. The negativity of being subjected to things…

Would you kill a man to save five children?

8 monkeys is a small price to pay to prevent the suffering of hundreds of thousands of human beings.

This world is going to die even if we had never been born. It is doomed to being consumed by the Sun. We can save it, for a time. But it won’t last another billion years. Even 400 million years from now, it will be drastically changed as the Sun goes through its cycle.

Lots of people get it but don’t vocalize it because many people oversimplify things they hear and read, to the point where criticism of islam as a set of ideas becomes criticism of the worth of Muslim PEOPLE and no further discussion can take place. It’s just how morons “think” of complex topics. They round off a…

Years ago, a friend of mine and I were out and we were looking for this one place at the ass end of town on MLK. It’s about 11pm on a Saturday, and he starts pulling a u turn and says “it’s gotta be back the way we came and it’s getting really dark down this way” And I was like “you racist bastard!” but seriously,…

Why, it’s almost as if we have a pattern-recognition engine running all the time we’re awake, noticing the similarities between things we’re thinking about now and thinks we have thought about before now!