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Originally posted by StargateMillennium View PostI think ppl are overthinking my question. Let me rephrase.
If I asked you, the individual reading this post, does the color my skin make me superior and that those who do not have it are cockroaches beneath my feet? Most if not all of you will say no.
If I asked you, the individual reading this post, does my technology that lets me travel across time and space make me superior that those who do not have it and are cockroaches beneath my feet? Most if not all of you will say no.
If I asked you, the individual reading this post, does my telekinetic abilities make me superior and that those who do not have it are cockroaches beneath my feet? Most if not all of you will say no.
If I asked you, the individual reading this post, does me living on a higher plane of existence make me superior and that those who do not are cockroaches beneath my feet? Most if not all of you will say no.
So under what condition can I ask "does my [insert unique property here] make me superior and that those who do not have it and are cockroaches beneath my feet?" and you, the person reading this post, will say yes? What is that unique property?
As for crushing spiders or cockroaches, I guarantee you if a Charlotte's web style event ever provably happened, where at least one species of spider demonstrated self awareness and enough intelligence to communicate their thoughts through language, there would be groups of activist who would be advocating for those spidesr to be granted rights and protections, and pigs too if it's very specifically like Charlotte's web. Humans are fantastically awesome like that.
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The only way a human would accept the killing of another human by a superior being, is if there's no capacity for free thinking, free choice or the presentation of emotions to care for another human being.
All of the above or some of the above are present, however, in all humans which means we would in theory see the act as unacceptable. We would be inclined to resist, no matter how dire the situation might look. One has to look no further than to any oppressed minority, to see that we, humans, will always stand up for our own kind (by which I mean human kind, because we are a cruel race by nature towards those who do not conform to the traditional norm of being set forth by societies in whatever form this transpires -- race, sex, color of skin, gender, religion, language, ...).Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
Proper Stargate Rewatch -- season 10 of SG-1
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