XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.animals.dog, rec.pets.dogs.behavior   
      
   On Sun, 02 Oct 2005  Goo proclaimed:   
      
   >moonspeak@hotmail.com pointed out:   
      
   >> You are a living joke. I've answered your question TWICE, and I'll   
   >> answer it a THIRD time. I'll dumb it down for you and remove the   
   >> reasoning behind it since you have difficulty understanding: I suspect   
   >> a dog would stop sniffing things.   
   >   
   >What's your basis for believing that?  Why is your   
   >basis any better than mine for my belief?   
   >   
   >I believe a dog would continue trying to sniff at   
   >things.  Dogs sniff; that's just what they do.   
      
       They do it because they are aware that they can learn from it   
   Goo. Their ancestors who were aware that they could use smelling   
   to their advantage, survived and reproduced others who had the   
   ability to do the same thing. It's called "survival of the fittest" among   
   other things, but neither of you can understand what things make one   
   animal more "fit" than another, and therefore neither of you has the   
   slightest clue of *how* "evolution"/"survival of the fittest"/"natural   
   selection" works. The sad part is that since you don't understand it   
   by this time, you almost certainly never will.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)