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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: deff]
    #23415060 - 07/05/16 08:33 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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i've heard an analogy before that people are like rocks in a rock tumbler - they bump and grate against each other (and the sand), and through this, they get refined and come out as polished gems :smile:




or rocks in a sack, yeah, and though they have rough edges, at first later on they are smooth like rocks from the ocean or a stream :heartpump:

ya on the whole the main issue is schadenfreude...  that is - taking pleasure from others' pain. . . anyway :smile:

i'm pretty sure it's done and gone :smile: true story.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #23415082 - 07/05/16 08:42 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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ut neither have I met a sane dog; I feel anything raised by humans cannot ever be 'sane'.




I disagree. I think animals raised by humans just ignore most of our stupid shit unless it directly harms them. Certainly cats and dogs are much closer to their pre-civilisation lifestyles than humans are.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor]
    #23415093 - 07/05/16 08:45 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

What are you basing that on? Your biases?


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor]
    #23415156 - 07/05/16 09:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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unless it directly harms them.



But that's the problem right? Have you ever met a human that is not harmed, and thus, does not harm?

I haven't.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #23415163 - 07/05/16 09:18 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Observation.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #23415171 - 07/05/16 09:19 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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unless it directly harms them.



But that's the problem right? Have you ever met a human that is not harmed, and thus, does not harm?

I haven't.




Most human misery is self-inflicted in the form of neuroses and a failure of spiritual hygiene. This doesn't directly affect animals.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor] * 1
    #23415205 - 07/05/16 09:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

You are kind of losing me on your point..

It seems you are saying both:

1) animals are incapable of higher order logic ["Most human misery is self-inflicted in the form of neuroses and a failure of spiritual hygiene. This doesn't directly affect animals."]


and

2) animals choose not to participate in higher order logic ["Maybe the rest of the animal world is too intelligent to get caught in human-style rational thought"]



Clearly, it cannot be both.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #23415227 - 07/05/16 09:40 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Clearly, it cannot be both.




Very clearly. The second comment was ironic.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor]
    #23415230 - 07/05/16 09:41 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

Anyway, what does intelligence have to do with higher-order logic?


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #23415345 - 07/05/16 10:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Why not?




I don't believe for a second that you would really trade being a human for being a dog.

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I've never met a sane human being.





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Neither have I.




Either you guys run in ridiculous circles, or you have an asinine definition of sanity.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor]
    #23415358 - 07/05/16 10:29 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I disagree. I think animals raised by humans just ignore most of our stupid shit unless it directly harms them.




Yeah, that's because they have no basis to understand most things that humans do. You are anthropomorphizing non-human animals.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23415384 - 07/05/16 10:36 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Why not?




I don't believe for a second that you would really trade being a human for being a dog.





:shrug: Probably a dog wouldn't trade for being me either. A dog would look at all the psychological damage humans go through trying to breed and would think "fuck that".


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor]
    #23415404 - 07/05/16 10:42 PM (7 years, 6 months ago)

lol no. A dog wouldn't trade with you because a dog would have no concept of trading lives with anything. A dog doesn't know a single thing about the "psychological damage" humans go through, nor does it have a single idea about what psychology even is as it's a human invention. There you are anthropomorphizing non-human animals again.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: clock_of_omens] * 1
    #23415819 - 07/06/16 02:08 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

How do you know what it's like to be a dog?


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: viktor] * 1
    #23416171 - 07/06/16 07:21 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

I don't, but I know what it's like to be a human. All evidence points to a massive difference between being a dog and being a human. It's much safer to assume that dogs aren't like us than assume that they understand psychology and have complex thoughts about what humans are doing. Has a dog ever created art? Has a dog ever done science? Has a dog ever demonstrated human level complex thought? Do dogs know language? How could a dog even conceptualize human concepts at all without language?


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23416200 - 07/06/16 07:43 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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I don't, but I know what it's like to be a human. All evidence points to a massive difference between being a dog and being a human. It's much safer to assume that dogs aren't like us than assume that they understand psychology and have complex thoughts about what humans are doing. Has a dog ever created art? Has a dog ever done science? Has a dog ever demonstrated human level complex thought? Do dogs know language? How could a dog even conceptualize human concepts at all without language?




What we share with dogs, beyond basic living,  are emotions, capacity for empathy, the experience of suffering, a sense of play, and so on ... it's not all about 'pure' cognition.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: laughingdog]
    #23416202 - 07/06/16 07:44 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

George Carlin has some funny shit about dogs


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: laughingdog]
    #23416233 - 07/06/16 07:58 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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What we share with dogs, beyond basic living,  are emotions, capacity for empathy, the experience of suffering, a sense of play, and so on ... it's not all about 'pure' cognition.




Well I was talking about what makes us different from dogs, not what makes us similar.


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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23416241 - 07/06/16 08:04 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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What we share with dogs, beyond basic living,  are emotions, capacity for empathy, the experience of suffering, a sense of play, and so on ... it's not all about 'pure' cognition.




Well I was talking about what makes us different from dogs, not what makes us similar.




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Re: Is humanity just a bunch of people making themselves and everyone else miserable? [Re: clock_of_omens]
    #23416535 - 07/06/16 10:40 AM (7 years, 6 months ago)

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Do dogs know language? How could a dog even conceptualize human concepts at all without language?




The language of dogs is a language of smells, of barks and growls and of body language. It's extremely sophisticated and complex. If you haven't noticed this then you don't know much about dogs.


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