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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by JackFr on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:55AM (#16079336)
> That anthropocentric bias has led to a multitude of evils

How about we're the only species which we hold to a moral standard? Unless you're going to hold other species to that standard, you have to admit that we're special.

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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by QAPereo on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:55PM (#16081138)
Different != Special
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by oreo81 on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:51PM (#16082476)
If you don't consider humans special. What is your definition of special?
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by QAPereo on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:08PM (#16082590)
“Special” is a human concept which may not exist objectively, empirically. Distinct, unique, etc... are probably more honest, assuming that we don’t exist in a multiverse.
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by mike741 on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:07PM (#16082899)
isn't every concept you could name right now a human concept which may not exist objectively?
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by QAPereo on Friday January 05, 2018 @07:26PM (#16082985)
No, but then, I like physics so I’d start rattling off fundamentals like the hyperfine transitions of Hydrogen, the speed of light in vacuum, and the mass of the proton.
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Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North... by oreo81 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:45PM (#16128222)
Still can't prove those absolutely objective. They just work out with our human conceived models of the "physical" universe.
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