| trooper6 |
03-01-2010 12:19 AM |
Re: [DF] Why not have some pure "bad guy" races in DF?
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Originally Posted by Lonewulf
(Post 943351)
No.
Evidence that monkeys are sapient, plz?
If they are sapient, then this causes one hell of an ethical issue we have to answer, don't we?
I have to wonder what will happen when we make First Contact with an alien race. You all seem content to kill or capture on sight if they aren't Homo.
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Well there has been frequent discussion of dolphins, whales, gorillas having sapience/sentience/intelligence. And they are killed and sold for pieces and parts or eaten.
Here was an interesting little thing from io9 discussing some marine biologists who feel that dolphins should have equal rights.
http://io9.com/5443392/marine-biolog...e-equal-rights
Anyway, people still kill some dolphins, whales, gorillas, rhesus monkeys, chimpanzees for resources...and we don't think of ourselves as evil (well, some animal rights activist groups would probably consider those people evil...but human society as a whole doesn't). Heck, many wars amount to killing people for resources and we often don't consider killing soldiers within the confines of war evil. |