Athren

Just ONE. ...See? Nobody can do it. Why? Because chickens are honest, living creatures

Let's look at the chicken/human comparison a little more:
We both require and search for nourishment, often in a group.
We take in that nourishment, where a complex series of systems provide energy to all the necessary cells of the body.
We both have an innate desire after a certain period of time to combine our genetic material with another in hopes of keeping some portion of ourselves "alive".
After a set amount of time, natural causes will end our lives, leaving room for the next generation to take our places.

Where exactly do we differ enough that we are so different? Because we use tools? Sorry, but so do other animals. Plenty of simians, and even some birds. Because we create communities where we work together and raise each other? Again, so do plenty of animals. Because we have "free will" and can act in good or evil ways, such as murdering our own? It's been shown that chimps can, in fact, commit murder.

Human beings are intelligent (...well, some of us, anyway...) because that's how we survived long enough to ****. A frog is not as intelligent because... he doesn't need to be that smart and reasoning to survive. His mechanism is having 10,000 little eggs and, with any luck, a handful will survive to reproduce. Those whose mechanisms didn't work... well, they not here anymore. Ours? It worked. A vulture's design lets him eat rotting meat with little risk of getting sick. If a human ate that meat, he'd vomit. So, using intelligence, we created cooking. Lower risk of getting sick from food. A rhino has thick hide and a powerful horn to fend off predators. We can creates weaponry. Different means to the same end.

So, where's the difference?

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Og

There is no difference of kind. Only a difference of degree. It is quite a large difference of degree to compare humans to chickens to single celled organisms. The degree is large, the kind is the same.

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You & I, no distinction. - Tat Tvam Asi
Become Who You Are

duck

What on earth was the point to that post? Hard to comment at all without understanding what the purpose of the exercise is....

Gettin' In Tune

Most humans look both ways before they cross the street, while a chicken just crosses the road to get to the other side

harleylove

Haha! You did it!!

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debdodd

the difference .... it's legal to fry and eat a chicken but they frown on it when you to fry up a human .....

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"We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again ....."