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Environment & Energy

Nihil

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3. No offence ...

Reply to GliderGuider (Reply #2)

Fri May 3, 2013, 05:06 AM

May 2013

... but anyone who takes any interest in such research already has an appropriate
"sense of cosmic importance" and those who persist in the slaughter of other sentient
species are not interested in anything of that nature.

Yes, I agree that it is a wonderful thing to be publicised and yes, I think it may help
sway the world-views of some of the "undecided" (or simply ambivalent) but I am just
deeply cynical with regard to it changing the habits/thoughts/intentions of anyone who
is of the wilfully closed, destructive mindset and who is thus causing the major issues.

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Signs of culture in whales and monkeys [View all] xchrom Apr 2013 OP

So? Nihil May 2013 #1

So this GliderGuider May 2013 #2

No offence ... Nihil May 2013 #3

I don't think it will make any difference at all to how events unfold GliderGuider May 2013 #4

can't you just appreciate this for the intrinsic value that it has? CreekDog May 2013 #6

I appreciated it (the culture of other animals) long before the article was published. Nihil May 2013 #7

all animals, espesially mammals, have culture. gejohnston May 2013 #5