nagashWed, Sep 9, 2009 if there's something that annoys me is that idea that human live is more valuable because we are intelligent. that's just our point of view, and if we shift it a little, migration birds ar more intelligent, bees are far more intelligent, or even plants (we still can't live on sun power, can we?).
and what about sapience? why we think it only happens to us? just because we can use words to communicate? from the view of a micro-organism living inside our gut, the idea of our entire body sapience may seem just as unlikely as the gaia-theory.
I don't think one needs a god to value life, but it takes an anthropomorphed god to value human life over other lifeforms, and that is just shameful. I'm perfectly comfortable with god being mathematical, organic, autophagic, wet, and NOT-human.
if there's something that annoys me is that idea that human live is more valuable because we are intelligent. that's just our point of view, and if we shift it a little, migration birds ar more intelligent, bees are far more intelligent, or even plants (we still can't live on sun power, can we?).
and what about sapience? why we think it only happens to us? just because we can use words to communicate? from the view of a micro-organism living inside our gut, the idea of our entire body sapience may seem just as unlikely as the gaia-theory.
I don't think one needs a god to value life, but it takes an anthropomorphed god to value human life over other lifeforms, and that is just shameful. I'm perfectly comfortable with god being mathematical, organic, autophagic, wet, and NOT-human.