[Henbaka]

Originally Posted by Altaru

Not sure if this has been said yet but...
I guess that means I'm superior to you.
I have access to multiple forms of weaponry, I know vulnerable points on the human body, and I have a knack for figuring out behavioral patterns and making plans.
If I had the inspiration right now, I could easily kill you. And you wouldn't even know what happened.
In fact, if this is the criteria that you judge superiority off of, than I know of only one person to whom I'm undoutably inferior, and that's only because she knows me as well as I know her. If and when I make any mistake at all, there wouldn't be a second chance.
Now, please, what do you say to that?

Now this wasn't aimed at me, but I'll comment on this (bs) first. One could say you are "superior" to another human by nature's standards if you can kill said human. This means that in the event of do-or-die, where it was either you or him/her, it would be you.

But that's not what we are talking about here, so it's irrellevant. We were talking about different species, not superiority amongst a certain species. I don't think you got either, that when we talked about superiority (atleast when I did), we meant superior as in this species survives, and that one doesn't. The ultimate outcome. This is not the "superiority" one means when they feel they are more intelligent, more beautiful, more successful than someone else. I don't feel humans are "more successful" than species like this leopard. We have just evolved very differently.

Originally Posted by Altaru

Let me start off by saying, I would gladly slaughter the majority of the human race to save the incredibly high number of endangered species that have only reached that point because of us.

I hate us too for bringing so many species to extinction. But this is just ridiculous. Would you start with yourself?

Originally Posted by Altaru

I believe that the human race is rather... Inferior, in many ways. Primarily because of the most important factor in any species survival.
Adaptability.
Whereas animals have a bred-in ability to adapt to their surroundings by any means necessary, humans almost always have to adapt the surroundings to themselves.
However, whereas an animal can generally use what's around them to adapt themselves, humans almost always need outside resources. And, to the few that can survive off the land... Bravo, don't become like the rest of our pathetic race.
Not to mention, in order to obtain those resources, we most often need to destroy our surroundings and nature (ex. drilling, foresting, both easily destroy the surrounding habitat...).

Not really. Yes, we fuck shit up. Yes I too hate that we are so many, and that it's really going downhill. But we do survive. I'm sorry but, in nature the strongest survives. Currently, that is us, and that's why animals die out and not us. By strenght I don't mean such stuff as physical strenght or agility, but also the skill and intelligence to build structures, weapons and tools that enhance our de facto strenght. This is how it is.

However, as we also have the intelligence to think about the negative effects and consequences of our actions, I really really think we gotta learn how to do that better. By that I mean that we should by now be intelligent enough to think of ways to live that does not involve making the earth uninhabitable for us or other animals, or drive other species to extinction for no reason.

Originally Posted by Altaru

Also, let me pose to you another question... Would you have saved Adolf Hitler before an endangered species? And, if you said no, why would you make a distinction between saving a good human and a bad human? I mean, they're both human, they're both "superior" to the animal by many of your standards.

Again ridiculous. A person with the mindset of saving a human before an animal would do so, and before AH made himself known to be evil, they would have saved him. Where to make a distinction? Easy, every human (well most) has standards by which they judge people to be good/evil/assholes/stupid/intelligent/whatever. This person would simply decide if AH(or anyone else) was worth saving by their standards.