You’re assuming that a permanently stoned H.T. would be less dangerous than he is now. Keeping live catnip plants away from him might be a better plan.
So now H. T. Is fulfilling his dream of wiping out humanity as a supposedly easy solution for non-humans to survive, basically the some thing Mr. Green is doing but in reverse. I wonder how he spontaneously turned that guy into a skeleton right where he stood with his clothes still on?
This seems like a reasonable and appropriate place to post this. On Saturday night there was a group of protesters from Students Against Speciesism in my neighborhood, standing across the street from a local restaurant and protesting pork on the basis that pigs are intelligent.
I didn’t feel like getting into a philosophical discussion at that time, since I was walking my dog, but while I am all for NHS rights, as I hope I have made clear on this site, I don’t consider pigs to be sapient. Dolphins have language, and possibly civilization. Elephants have civilization. Great apes certainly have both. While I don’t know if that’s the minimum basis for calling a species sapient, it does seem like a reasonable place to start.
Pigs, while possessing sentience and problem-solving intelligence, have neither a discernible complex language nor civilization. For that reason, I don’t see it as unreasonable to use them as livestock rather than acknowledge that they have some kind of rights as sapient creatures.
Some humans may possess civilization, and some few may possess complex language, but they are still both delicious and annoying. For that reason, I don’t see it as unreasonable to use them as livestock.
If pigs aren’t sapient, neither are dogs. They’re roughly as intelligent as each other.
My stance is that eating sapients is acceptable so long as they are given good lives and clean deaths – free range animals that get to live as good or better a life than they would lead as wild animals absent of human presence, and that go to slaughter in humane ways.
Clonal “vat grown” meat is mere decades away, and then we can all enjoy real meat that is genetically pig / cow / sheep / chicken / whatever, without having to rip the flesh from living sapients, and it will all be a moot point. But in the meantime, people aren’t going to stop eating meat (or needing to for global nutrition reasons), but we can at least work to stamp out cruelty while we remain dependent on it.
And Pavane. A small swarm at my house…a large swarm at my mother’s house. (Actually, I never had much of a problem with my swarm, though they were in the electric meter box…but somebody must’ve complained to code compliance ’cause they pinned a note to my garage door.)
Told ya. Too close to Carbondale.
Poor Renard. He just can’t catch a break! T_T
If you threw catnip seeds at HT, would they grow inside him?
I wonder how similar does HT look to lettuce to the turtles?
You’re assuming that a permanently stoned H.T. would be less dangerous than he is now. Keeping live catnip plants away from him might be a better plan.
So now H. T. Is fulfilling his dream of wiping out humanity as a supposedly easy solution for non-humans to survive, basically the some thing Mr. Green is doing but in reverse. I wonder how he spontaneously turned that guy into a skeleton right where he stood with his clothes still on?
Flesh-eating spores perhaps.
Also, I suppose H. T. will ask about Renard’s silver jumpsuit.
This seems like a reasonable and appropriate place to post this. On Saturday night there was a group of protesters from Students Against Speciesism in my neighborhood, standing across the street from a local restaurant and protesting pork on the basis that pigs are intelligent.
I didn’t feel like getting into a philosophical discussion at that time, since I was walking my dog, but while I am all for NHS rights, as I hope I have made clear on this site, I don’t consider pigs to be sapient. Dolphins have language, and possibly civilization. Elephants have civilization. Great apes certainly have both. While I don’t know if that’s the minimum basis for calling a species sapient, it does seem like a reasonable place to start.
Pigs, while possessing sentience and problem-solving intelligence, have neither a discernible complex language nor civilization. For that reason, I don’t see it as unreasonable to use them as livestock rather than acknowledge that they have some kind of rights as sapient creatures.
It’s a new one on me. But there are a lot of protests over people wanting something and insisting everybody abide by it because they want it to be so.
Enjoy your bacon in the meantime.
Some humans may possess civilization, and some few may possess complex language, but they are still both delicious and annoying. For that reason, I don’t see it as unreasonable to use them as livestock.
And quite frankly, many of them are no more intelligent than the average cow.
If pigs aren’t sapient, neither are dogs. They’re roughly as intelligent as each other.
My stance is that eating sapients is acceptable so long as they are given good lives and clean deaths – free range animals that get to live as good or better a life than they would lead as wild animals absent of human presence, and that go to slaughter in humane ways.
Clonal “vat grown” meat is mere decades away, and then we can all enjoy real meat that is genetically pig / cow / sheep / chicken / whatever, without having to rip the flesh from living sapients, and it will all be a moot point. But in the meantime, people aren’t going to stop eating meat (or needing to for global nutrition reasons), but we can at least work to stamp out cruelty while we remain dependent on it.
And interestingly enough, there are many countries where they eat dogs on a regular basis.
Of course, as it stands now, H. T. might not know what’s going on here at this truck stop any more than Renard does. Probably not, but it could be.
Oh. Putting off my song parody till tomorrow or Wednesday. Too much business today, great chunks of it involving bees.
I knew Gavotte was up to something…
And Pavane. A small swarm at my house…a large swarm at my mother’s house. (Actually, I never had much of a problem with my swarm, though they were in the electric meter box…but somebody must’ve complained to code compliance ’cause they pinned a note to my garage door.)
Always awkward to meet an old boss