<p>Exactly! At what point does it become a moral wrong to hurt a bunch of things? Germs? Amoebas? Mites? Insects? We don’t seem to have a problem hurting any of these things.</p>
<p>You realize you completely passed over plants and animals and went straight for microscopic organisms, right? (:
Or am I missing the joke again? Maybe i really do need that remedial jokes 101…</p>
<p>I started small and am working my way up. I didn’t actually think about plants at all…</p>
<p>wow herbicide is wrong.</p>
<p>I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees!</p>
<p>Well, what is the difference between a deer and a bacterium? What makes one more valuable than the other? Really, it’s about our perception of the world. From our perspective, a deer is more important. We’re are seeing the universe through the bias of humanity. We perceive everything from the view of a Homo Sapien. We lack the ability to be objective in our analysis of…pretty much everything.
In reality, there is no difference between a tree and a person. Obviously, there are billions of cellular differences between a person and a tree, but if we assume an objective view of the universe, there is practically no difference of “value” between a person and a tree.</p>
<p>Hey, Fridge!</p>
<p>dr suess right?</p>
<p>Quick post, I don’t know if any of you are Chemistry fans, but here’s a historic moment…
[Electron</a> Caught On Film For The First Time | Scientific Blogging](<a href=“http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/electron_caught_on_film_for_the_first_time]Electron”>Electron Caught On Film For The First Time | Science 2.0)</p>
<p>It’s the first time an electron has been caught on film.</p>
<p>my chemistry teacher was a demon…</p>
<p>deer = trillions of cells + bacteria (lots of life forms)
bacterium = well, 1 bacterium</p>
<p>Of course, most humans don’t think of it that way. Anything with eyes, or anything that vaguely looks or behaves human is by default more likely to trigger emotion/compassion.</p>
<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>The Lorax = best Dr. Seuss book ever. Well, one of them anyways…</p>
<p>Why are a trillion cells more important than one?</p>
<p>Howdy Fridge!</p>
<p>I’d say the more discernible behaviors that humans can identify with an animal displays, the more compassion a human feels to it. Flies- not so much. Chimpanzees- a lot. We generally support chimpanzee habitats and routinely squish flies.</p>
<p>dont tell me you werent moved when they killed bambi’s mom.</p>
<p>and you cant exactly squish a chimp. size definitely has something to do with it.</p>
<p>So if something is big, it’s important?</p>
<p>I never saw Bambi, but i had spoiled years ago.(:
I think i’m one of the few kids who saw The Fox and The Hound instead of Bambi. By the way, Fox and the Hound still holds up today.</p>
<p>I never watched Bambi because I knew his mommy died and I thought it would make me sad.</p>
<p>Yes, but even small mammals evoke more compassion than big lobsters. Like, little baby mice? Adorable? Baby dwarf hamsters? Adorable. Crabs? …Not so much.</p>
<p>Well Hudson, I guess the value of the totality of the entire human population is equal to the value of my life (i.e. 6.4 billion is not more important than one).</p>
<p>Haha. I only saw Bambi in French when I was about 4…I didn’t even realize that it was in French, or that I couldn’t understand a word…I must have been some stupid child.</p>
<p>Example: Zooogy class.</p>
<p>Everyone signed up to learn about cute furry animals. Instead, we spend half the year learning about worms and arthropods. Half the class drops after first semester.</p>
<p>My point was that nothing has value, but it’s us humans that assign value to objects, ideas, and everything else in the universe.
Imagine if humans didn’t exist, would a deer still be more important than a bacterium?</p>
<p>ok mice, never adorable. hamsters maybe. but you try and kill an elephant over a fish!</p>
<p>It would likely have a greater impact on its environment as a consumer and also as prey for something higher on the food chain and a deer reproducer.</p>
<p>Mice are totally adorable! I’d love a little tiny mouse-pet. My mother: not so much.</p>