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Well, there are those who would argue there was no mind involved at all.

Looking at how other species exploit each other in such horrible ways makes you wonder where certain folks get off preaching that humanity is somehow a horrible unnatural monster that the Earth has to be saved from through some magical assention or messianic intervention by gods or aliens. Such a stance, for all its high-mined false nobility, is rooted in a shameful ignorance of the natural world and a overinflated and unrealistic view of humans as a species.

[QUOTE="trainedobserver, post: 106746, member: 2192"] Well, there are those who would argue there was no [I]mind[/I] involved at all. Looking at how other species exploit each other in such horrible ways makes you wonder where certain folks get off preaching that humanity is somehow a horrible unnatural monster that the Earth has to be saved from through some magical [I]assention[/I] or messianic intervention by gods or aliens. Such a stance, for all its high-mined false nobility, is rooted in a shameful ignorance of the natural world and a overinflated and unrealistic view of humans as a species. [/QUOTE]

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