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I made your strawman more prominent in hopes you'll see it and admit that you actually built it.
You mistake my concentration on a point you don't consider as main for making a strawman. I've already explained this, so you can read it again if you wish.
You concentrated on arguing a point that was not mine and told me it was mine. That's a strawman.
"We as animals have unique attributes which make us able to KILL EVERY OTHER LIVING THING ON THE PLANET. No other species can do this."
This is the point that you made that I am disagreeing with. The last sentence. It is unsourced. That is what I am saying. Period.
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we aren't at the top of a food chain
Oh yes we are... unless you fear being eaten often. You don't, do you?
What do you think our bodies provide sustenance for? What eats us? Micro-organisms.
Oh. So you're under the impression you have some flesh-eating bacterial disease. Do tell. This is funny.
No. Decay bacteria. I've said this already. When we die, our bodies decay, and are consumed. It is a consumer-resource system, in which we are sustenance for beings higher up on the ladder than ourselves. We are not consumed by nothing. Therefore, we aren't at the top. A food-chain shows resources, not necessarily predatory behaviour.
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food chains are not a way to assign superiority to humanity
I never said "humans are superior because we're at the top of the food chain." What I said was "being at the top of the food chain, we eat other living things to survive, and therefore we MUST value their life below ours, and ours superior to theirs.
Which is why I said "absolute or perceived superiority", in consideration of your bad habit of ascribing ourselves the top of the food-chain.
Any time you eat, you must eat because you value your survival as superior to the thing you eat. It's not going to become false because you don't believe it.
I do believe that. This is now the third time I have said this. How many more will it take for you to understand?
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You said that no other organism on the planet has the potential to kill every other organism on the planet.
I did, and I stand by it. We have nukes. We have a-bombs. We have Radiation. We have control of fire, steel, and antibacterial methods. We can kill off every other living thing on the planet if we choose to as a species. It would take time. It would take resources. It would change the dynamic of our ecosystem. We probably wouldn't survive long after we did it. Which is why we won't do it, but we could.
You cut off the point that was important, the "This is unsourced". I have explicitly stated that humans are capable of this, probably. That isn't what interests me. What interests me is the fact that you haven't deigned demonstrate how we are the only beings capable of this, on the entire planet. Until such a time you decide to actually read what I'm writing, you won't be proving anything.
Observation. That's the source. I observe millions of other species coexisting with us, none of which have any power to wipe out the planet.
That you know of. Arguments from ignorance mean nothing. Again and also, this doesn't put us at the top of the food chain.
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I can also say that I care little for your manner.
I care little for your weak attempts at proving we're not at the top of the food chain, and I care little for your weak attempts at refuting that whenever you eat something, you're eating something that was alive, and therefore by doing so you're claiming superiority over it by it dying so you can survive.
I'm not refuting the latter. Even after explicitly stating that I'm not trying to do so, you still seem to think that I am. It would be best if you got over that problem.
If you're not refuting me then what the hell are you doing replying to my posts negatively?
I am not refuting that knowingly consuming another living being implies your care for your own life more than the life of the being you've consumed. I am refuting your comments that 1. We are at the top of the food chain and 2. It is fact that no other being on this planet has the potential to kill any of being on this planet.
The first, because it is false. The second, because you've no proof for such a statement, due to your lack of knowledge of every being that may exist on this planet. The second can be easily fixed via the use of a qualifier. The first can be made clear to you upon your learning of what a food chain is.
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As for my "weak attempts", that's entertaining. So far, in reference to being at the top of the food chain, all you've said is that humans can pose mortal threat to most anything we choose. That isn't what a food chain is, as I've already said. A food chain shows what eats what. We are eaten by decay bacteria.
Not terminally, we aren't. And you're not afraid of being eaten on a constant basis, I bet. Your argument about bacteria is invalid, as there's a symbiosis with it most of the time.
It doesn't need to be terminally, that is a misconception of what a food-chain is. As I've said, it is a consumer-resource relationship. As for symbiosis, that's hilarious. We (animals) live in symbiosis with trees and plants too. Are we not in a food-chain with them? Of course we are, don't be stupid.
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To sum up; Learn what a food chain is, realise that that is the only point I am addressing, learn to read what I type.
Right back at ya, because we're at the top of the food chain.
No, we aren't.
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