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bodil
14 Dec 14 00:14
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... that almost all life is prey v predator.

Or do the bulk of us just wander around trying not to hurt each other?  Due to lack of ambition/common sense/vegetarianism.

Tricky.  I envy the photosynthesizers amongst us.
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Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:18 AM GMT
I agree with Tolstoy on this.
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:21 AM GMT
To put "meat" on the bone.


“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:26 AM GMT
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:27 AM GMT
Albert Einstein
“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
― Albert Einstein
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:27 AM GMT
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
― Paul McCartney
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:28 AM GMT
“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.”
― Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:29 AM GMT
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
Report Burton-Brewers December 14, 2014 12:30 AM GMT
you've done that one
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:31 AM GMT
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”
― George Bernard Shaw
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:32 AM GMT
well read it twice!
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 12:34 AM GMT
Even though I was about to sarcastically reply to Mr. Mann, there is a possibility that his philosophy could be more widely adapted and applied to the benefit of all, but I suppose that the Prisoner's Dilemma would feck it up.

No, the Prisoner's Dilemma fecks it up, imo.
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:36 AM GMT
Don't worry Patra.98% reply sarcastically or critically when I go off on one about animal welfare.
Report bodil December 14, 2014 12:50 AM GMT
When we genetically modify ourselves to include chloroplasts, all will be well.
Report tictacman1 December 14, 2014 12:55 AM GMT
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

-Duke of Edinburgh 1986
Report kenny mann December 14, 2014 12:55 AM GMT
wow that's steep, had to look up chloroplasts.
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:03 AM GMT
To be optimistic, we will eventually feed directly from sunshine.  We do already indirectly but apparently it causes problems.  And why not?  Now I've lost interest.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 1:10 AM GMT
No, I think the optimistic route is amazing chemically engineered drugs or biologically people. To produce non-bastards.

The pessimistic route will probably win, though.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 1:15 AM GMT
Ah! Biologically engineered people I meant.
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:15 AM GMT
If they are obvious villains - we should kill them.

Let us absorb chloroplasts and integrate their sugars - and then try to ignore stuff we have no control over.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 1:18 AM GMT
In the short term, surely the smart ones should just sit back and mock silently, no?
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:18 AM GMT
Oh. Rest easy all.  Trust, me - this wont turn out well.
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:21 AM GMT
Smart people are usually seriously shattered by sex.
Report Hank Hill December 14, 2014 1:21 AM GMT
Was vegetarian for about 12 years. One day walking in the hospital corridors I was really stressed and craved a big hamburger. I had not thought about one for a very long time. The next day I stopped being vegetarian. Don't eat meat every day, and still like a lot of my vege meals I made.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 1:27 AM GMT
But títs are just so comical, though. And surely the embarrassment that women feel for the absurdity of their vaginas explains most of their evil, thus making them mockable and dealable with. No? I've been wrong before.
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:29 AM GMT
Rest easy.  Try to find some vanishing thread of human decency amongst your mindless voraciousness.  Or we could just kill every UK invader ahead of us.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 1:41 AM GMT
Ha! The shameless hyprocrisy.

(I'm not saying you're a UK invader though. Don't worry about that.)
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:47 AM GMT
Hey.  I just lost concentration for a few seconds.
Report bodil December 14, 2014 1:49 AM GMT
This wasn't how it was meant to be.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 2:02 AM GMT
But, Bodil, consider you're intellect!

Consider the irony and mock freely!

If the aim of the game is to maximise pleasure, it seems impossibly perverse that the game cannot be won. All you can do is leave life with net positive happiness. The poor fools that inherit this doomed rock trouble me not, for I did not invite them...
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 2:08 AM GMT
...playing drunken chess - back in ten...
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 2:12 AM GMT
Did him. Duly mocked.
Report PatraTheCat December 14, 2014 2:34 AM GMT
Was done though, afterwards; the sober fúcker.
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