From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   Is it right that homo sapiens is at the top of the food chain?   
   Well, you have to found "right" in first principles to justify that.   
   If, for example, I were to say "Oh no! Dolphins and spiders have more   
   right" how would you argue on?   
   I think you'd appeal to the higher cognitive qualities that we have; the   
   ability to examine aspects of "reason", discover the underlying causes   
   in science, and then use science for our benefit; as if that made us   
   more right to be here. But, is that closer to "right"? Only from a   
   highly prejudiced human perspective.   
      
   Prove to me that hyenas have less right. You'd have to step outside of   
   human prejudice to do that. And once you did that, i.e. step right   
   outside of the human prejudice of right, you'd diminish right to nothing   
   less than right for us.   
      
   Is God nothing more than human right projected outward?   
   That's how it seems to me.   
   Argue me wrong, philosophers.   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)