"Instinct"?

[ameliorer]

Today, I had my first biology lesson

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[periariyx]

Animals have different personalities just as much as people do. We're more similar than people give them credit for, I think, because we're the ones with all this goddamn technology. e_e

[ameliorer]

Yis. And with all the goshdurned technology, we've also kind of grew on our own, I guess. Which is also why they might think that way. .-.

[doxinator]

And I think you're absolutely right!

It's pretty hilarious that people seem to make animals out to be these drooling, brainless heaps of flesh when we're animals ourselves. ^_-

[ameliorer]

My friend says:
Topic in gaia ---> ANIMALS DON'T HAVE FEELINGS, DAMMIT! KILL THEM ALL!
Lapin [I fail at life. :D] says:
o_O
Lapin [I fail at life. :D] says:
... We don't have feelings!?
Lapin [I fail at life. :D] says:
;_____; AM I LIVING A LIE!?

Kehehe. *shot'd*

[keeta]

Agh. Anybody who thinks that human and animals are in two different categories is an ass. Humans have instincts as well, we just ignore them--and not to our benefit. When jumping horses, I've realized that a horse always has the choice to run out on a jump if you screw up. Some of them decide not to. It's not so much about training because some horses will be excellently trained and still run out on jumps because they've decided they just don't want to, or don't feel like it. Bah. That just pisses me off that your teacher and so many other people think that humans are so high above animals. I suppose it's because we're so godly and allmighty that we're destroying the planet.

[ameliorer]

xD; We're the only ones doing that, aren't we?

Well, I suppose it's because he's kind of religious - not to say that all religious people are like that, but I think a lot of them are. Just like a lot of religious extremists are against gay marriage, etc. He is probably one of the most generous teachers I have, but... eeh, we shall see what happens next. 0=

[ameliorer]

I meant ("Oh, here she goes again!") that a lot of people who read whichever book they read interpret it so that humans end up on the top somehow. Yeah. I'll shut up now. *TEH SHUFFLE AWAY.*

[keeta]

Yea. There's something in the Bible about how animals were created for man, which I think is crap.

[rosella_destiny]

My biology teacher takes the exact opposite view from yours. Actually, she more or less equates all sentient organisms to a set of simple machines reacting to environmental stimuli. Kind of depressing, really, but maybe she thinks are pathetic, malleable, young minds aren't mature enough to handle anything more complex. And then she goes and personifies subcellular things- as if proofreading enzymes and mitochondria and nitrogenous bases made choices.

Anyway, I hope it gets better for you.

[ameliorer]

Ehehe, I kind of think like that too. *shot* My teacher's not a horrible person or even a horrible teacher. x3; I dunno if I'll be able to stand him during biology, though.

Good to see you around again, Miss Destiny!

[calvin_hawkins]

Technically, humans are animals... so I don't see how someone could get that confused. Animals don't act on instinct, it's just how some people see them. Everything alive can think (or at least I think so) and can feel and and can make choices. Hell, humans do things out of instinct too, right? So it just depends on the situation. Everything living can do something out of instinct or think through it.

I agree totally with you, Lap. And everyone else who has already said something XD

[ameliorer]

I guess it's because we're so heavily populated everywhere and we have contact with each other - it's like we're our own kind of organism. Two-legged, machine-using, talking organism.

Yepyep, that's what I believe ^_^;

Thank you~