I wonder why the cat spy's failed?? Like we're the cats too sassy to listen to the orders?? Like mittens what did u find out about the communists and mittens refused to tell and just sat there licking itself or maybe the cats were double crossers....
David Tennant was the first actor to use Tchaikowsky's skull in a live performance in 2008 (26 years after it was left in his will) because previous actors and directors felt uncomfortable. The Royal Shakespeare Company revealed to the press that they would no longer use the skull as it was a "distraction" during performances but this was a deception and kept on using it.
It's all because there was so few people back then compared to now. As a side note for example and if you are feeling a little low, a Durham University study looked at the probability of an English person being descended from King Edward III (died 1377) and came to the conclusion that "here is an extremely high probability that a modern English person with predominantly English ancestry descends from Edward III, at a very minimum over 99%, and more likely very close to 100%. The number of descendants of Edward III must therefore include nearly all of the population of England, and probably much of the populations of the rest of the UK and Eire, as well as many millions in the USA, former British colonies and Europe, so 100 million seems a conservative estimate." So if you can trace an ancestory line to the English you can boast that you have the blood of kings in your veins. http://community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/EdwardIIIDescent.php
Yeah. They say eating your children is wrong too. And rape. And all sorts of other fun stuff.
The animals clearly have it all figured out, why shouldn't we be more like them?
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Humanity, as a race, has developed and evolved a great deal due to other animals' behaviour; over the course of our history we have seen their practices and adapted some of them to suit ourselves - generally in the past it has been for survival (for example, habitat choice and eating habits), but nowadays we learn from them to better our lives. So no, we shouldn't copy everything animals do, but we can definitely learn from some things they do - in this instance, homosexuality. Don't attack gay marriage by saying the animals that do it also do other, less humanly morally acceptable things, so homosexuality must be bad too.
Let me just point out that that wasn't an attack on gay marriage, because I promise you, no animals do gay marriage.
Sure, the fact that animals do something doesn't inherently make it bad. But it sure as heck doesn't make it inherently good either. I think both arguments fail for the same reasons. Animals simply don't have the same concepts of morality that we do, so I vote we just leave them out of it. Citing animal behavior as a reference in a moral issue is like asking a tree for dating advice. It has no concept of that, so let's not pretend it does.
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Animal behaviour is often used as a reference or evidence to support and weaken moral issues. And I said we shouldn't copy EVERYTHING they do - but we shouldn't discount different opinions and actions just because animals DO do it, too.
I know that it is, I'm just saying it shouldn't be.
Otherwise you're just saying the same thing over, and I don't see how that has anything to do with anything I said, and I kinda wonder if you even read my response.
But I don't like getting into debates on FS -- it's not a good forum for that. I've said what was on my mind, and I'll just leave it at that.
Really didn't think that one through...
The animals clearly have it all figured out, why shouldn't we be more like them?
Sure, the fact that animals do something doesn't inherently make it bad. But it sure as heck doesn't make it inherently good either. I think both arguments fail for the same reasons. Animals simply don't have the same concepts of morality that we do, so I vote we just leave them out of it. Citing animal behavior as a reference in a moral issue is like asking a tree for dating advice. It has no concept of that, so let's not pretend it does.
Otherwise you're just saying the same thing over, and I don't see how that has anything to do with anything I said, and I kinda wonder if you even read my response.
But I don't like getting into debates on FS -- it's not a good forum for that. I've said what was on my mind, and I'll just leave it at that.