american chaos
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Tell that Great White Shark swimming towards you that you are a higher order than he is.Did I read this correctly: "...(humans are a higher order than all other life)..."????
Are you actually suggesting that this is not so???
If so, congrats on being an honest liberal!
Wonderful to have such witty repartee...
"Tell" as in speak to?
'...higher order..." as defined by size and appetite?
A remedial in biology:
1. Order is between class and family.
2. Humans are of the 'primate' order
3. Great White Sharks are cartilaginous fish of the order Lamniformes
4. Humans have a highly developed brain, capable of abstract reasoning, language, introspection, and problem solving. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees the hands for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of tools than any other species on Earth. Human - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I like your number 4--it makes me feel really good about being human.
But the question remains--is this what is meant to be the superior species on earth.
I hate to say it, but I tend to think that plants are of a higher order than any animal since plants can take advantage of their immediate surroundings, can obtain larger life spans (depending on species) and are not as "extinction prong" in comparison to animals that need to seek out nutrition, extinction prong and relie on the death of other living things to survive .