On: Insects are more sensitive than they seem

[brnt]

Interesting to think how we got so full of ourselves that we ever thought we were.

[klipt → brnt]

Probably just evolution. Contemplating the morality of eating antelope doesn't help the lion survive. Assuming that antelope are for eating does.

[assbuttbuttass → brnt]

This idea comes from Mechanical Philosophy, and is represented in the writings of Descartes. According to his dualist view of the world, the soul and body are opposed, but only humans have a soul.

He wanted to show that animals are just automata, and believed that they are incapable of feeling pain.

[spaetzleesser → assbuttbuttass]

I think the Bible also made a big contribution to that thinking by telling humans to rule over the world.

[beebeepka → spaetzleesser]

And certain people to rule over all other people. It literally says both. The old testament is astonishingly horrible

[arpa → spaetzleesser]

literally in god's image