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Why do many (but not all) Conservatives hate the environment?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pix3l_P0w3r" data-source="post: 165005" data-attributes="member: 9968"><p>[USER=288]@Einstein[/USER], I agree with the statement the Earth is alive, but I'd like you to elaborate on how it is sentient. This largely depends on your definition of sentience, which is why I'm asking. A cell in your body is 'sentient' but it has no 'consciousness', if that makes any sense to you. Is what we see simply reactions, or is the planet indeed a being that can sense, feel, and perceive, and to what extent. What separates us from other forms of life we see around is, is our frontal lobe. The pinnacle of human evolution. But one setback to human thinking is that we tend to build upon past experiences and what we know to be true, yet every person has a different definition of words and phrases, and a different perception of the world. Being human is both a prison, and a freedom, and it largely comes down to choice. </p><p></p><p>At what point do you draw the line on a value of life? If everything is indeed alive, is it any more okay to kill a plant for consumption, than to kill a living creature? If not, is it right to kill any living creature as long as the purpose is for your own survival? Where is the moral line drawn? Because it seems that in today's society that the ultimate value of life is applied to our own species, which seems to be inherent nature of other living organisms; but with evolved knowledge, it presents itself as selfish behavior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pix3l_P0w3r, post: 165005, member: 9968"] [USER=288]@Einstein[/USER], I agree with the statement the Earth is alive, but I'd like you to elaborate on how it is sentient. This largely depends on your definition of sentience, which is why I'm asking. A cell in your body is 'sentient' but it has no 'consciousness', if that makes any sense to you. Is what we see simply reactions, or is the planet indeed a being that can sense, feel, and perceive, and to what extent. What separates us from other forms of life we see around is, is our frontal lobe. The pinnacle of human evolution. But one setback to human thinking is that we tend to build upon past experiences and what we know to be true, yet every person has a different definition of words and phrases, and a different perception of the world. Being human is both a prison, and a freedom, and it largely comes down to choice. At what point do you draw the line on a value of life? If everything is indeed alive, is it any more okay to kill a plant for consumption, than to kill a living creature? If not, is it right to kill any living creature as long as the purpose is for your own survival? Where is the moral line drawn? Because it seems that in today's society that the ultimate value of life is applied to our own species, which seems to be inherent nature of other living organisms; but with evolved knowledge, it presents itself as selfish behavior. [/QUOTE]
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