From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   Ed Cryer wrote:   
   > 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   
   >   
   >   
   Oh, and keep in mind that philosophy is applicable to reason and logic;   
   not to prejudices and polemical rants. It's a call to the extents of   
   reason; its origins; its usefulness; whether it should be abandoned in   
   favour of other modes of ordering life.   
      
   Ed   
      
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