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I mean we believe ourselves to be the most intelligent species, but i sure many others feel the same.
we can only judge them by our methods of rationalising 'What makes one intelligent', while they can only do the same i suppose.
Yet saying this, as human beings, we are behaving less and less like animals, with our material functions and lives that will have no major effect on the environment except for pollute and use up natural resources as we breed uncontrollably. Doesn't sound so intelligent to me
The thing i was thinking, is that everyone kinda thinks that if there is intelligent life out there, that they would contact us, since this is OUR planet, but is it really?
Humans only provide a small number of the total population of living organisms on this planet, yet we believe it to be ours. Is it because we are at the top of the food change, cause naturally (i.e. without weapons) i don't think this would be the case either.
We aren't the largest animal, we don't have the highest population (especially if you consider sea creatures, and insects as well as bacterias and viruses), we deem ourselves the most intelligent, yet we do the most harm to our natural environment. The only thing we do have is CNN and Cartoon Network
Is that enough to be able to claim this planet ours???
just think about it and see what you think...
we can only judge them by our methods of rationalising 'What makes one intelligent', while they can only do the same i suppose.
Yet saying this, as human beings, we are behaving less and less like animals, with our material functions and lives that will have no major effect on the environment except for pollute and use up natural resources as we breed uncontrollably. Doesn't sound so intelligent to me
The thing i was thinking, is that everyone kinda thinks that if there is intelligent life out there, that they would contact us, since this is OUR planet, but is it really?
Humans only provide a small number of the total population of living organisms on this planet, yet we believe it to be ours. Is it because we are at the top of the food change, cause naturally (i.e. without weapons) i don't think this would be the case either.
We aren't the largest animal, we don't have the highest population (especially if you consider sea creatures, and insects as well as bacterias and viruses), we deem ourselves the most intelligent, yet we do the most harm to our natural environment. The only thing we do have is CNN and Cartoon Network
Is that enough to be able to claim this planet ours???
just think about it and see what you think...