16 August 2011
What separates makes humans any different from other animals?
Emotions? Animals have emotions. Animals feel fear, love, excitement, joy, dejection.
The faculty of reason must be what makes us higher animals.
With this special faculty, we are able to rationalize every unreasonable idea. We prop unreliable ideas up with solid assertions, believing them with unshakable conviction.
Because of reason, we become irrational.
We live in a world of delusions. A world where war is justified, where torture is endorsed, where every form of vice has a perfect excuse to exist.
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16 August 2011
What separates makes humans any different from other animals?
Emotions? Animals have emotions. Animals feel fear, love, excitement, joy, dejection.
The faculty of reason must be what makes us higher animals.
With this special faculty, we are able to rationalize every unreasonable idea. We prop unreliable ideas up with solid assertions, believing them with unshakable conviction.
Because of reason, we become irrational.
We live in a world of delusions. A world where war is justified, where torture is endorsed, where every form of vice has a perfect excuse to exist.
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