Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses Tools

Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by droopyEyelids on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:35PM (#12502152)

The way you're thinking about things is very natural in the realm of computers and math, but insane in life at large.

We do not follow universal, perfect rules. Humans make judgements on what is appropriate or not based on preference.

It would be perfectly in keeping with sanity and normal behavior to decide something is worth the regrettable extinction of an intelligent species, while maintaining actual codes of morality.

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by cLeEOGPw on Thursday September 15, 2016 @04:31AM (#12504355)

It only appears that we do not follow universal, perfect rules because we have so many of them and even different from one individual to other. Our brains are too big to make sense about these rules. But if you take simple variant of brain, insect for example, you see that they pretty much have universal, perfect rules that they follow much like robots.

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by M_Grey on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:44PM (#12502208)

What's the value in extinguishing intelligent species? Otherwise you're right, but it's not in keeping with the professed morality that the vast majority of the public appears to claim to follow. As I said, it might be time to simply admit that our overriding ethic is, "Because we can."

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by flukus on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:36PM (#12502712)

> What's the value in extinguishing intelligent species?

More resources for us.

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by M_Grey on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:39PM (#12502726)

What resources are we competing for with crows exactly?

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by ItsDeathball on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:14PM (#12502850)

Desirable tropical beachfront property?

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by M_Grey on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @11:06PM (#12503062)

Crow condos on the beach... the solution is clearly timeshare.

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by 205guy on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:37AM (#12504802)

You think they would fall for free luau tickets and high-pressure sales techniques?

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Re:Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses T... by M_Grey on Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:39AM (#12505996)

Well... it would be a real test of their intelligence.

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