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[life_question]

Damn. It's been forever since I've updated. I feel like a horrible person, because every time I think of something worth posting, I keep it to myself. I guess that's partly because of who I am, and partly because I'm too lazy and I can always find other ways to spend my time when I have it. I've never really been the type of person who talks about

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[midnightlynx]

When did the muffins start exotic dancing?
Those wicked, naughty muffins. Next they'll be hanging out in trashy bars and going home with sailors.

[life_question]

no, they're male exotic dancing muffins. They can go home with me, though.

[midnightlynx]

No, they're male exotic dancing muffins.

That usually doesn't dissuade the sailors...

[life_question]

but it generally dissuades the muffins...

Random Tangent Time!

[midnightlynx]

(again.)

Most meat-eaters are Human Chauvinists. They work from a foundational assumption that humans are better than any other animals. Often implicit in this is the assumption that people are not also animals themselves, that they're somehow different than all other creatures on the planet. (Well, they are, in as far as every species is different from every other species or they really wouldn't be different species in the first place, but I think you know what I meant.)

This is an evolutionary sound mindset.

Early humans (Or... actually pre-human primates, I guess. Whichever one was the first omnivorous one in the chain.) were omnivorous for a good reason. Food wasn't terribly plentiful, and it gave them twice the diet possibilities of pure carnivorousness or herbivorousness. (I hope I just invented those words.) Besides, they were kinda awkward and soft and fleshy, and didn't really have any natural weapons or armor on their bodies, so they needed all the help they could get. (Mmm. Monkey

Re: Random Tangent Time!

[jeweleddragon]

Now, even though they could eat both plants and meat, that didn't mean they could go around eating just anything. After all, rocks still hurt. Poisonous items still tended to turn out badly. But most importantly to this discussion, they couldn't go around killing and eating their buddies just because they were hungry. Other members of their own kind were therefore instinctually tagged 'off-limits'.

But why did they develop this sense of members of their own species being off-limits? Some animals don't have that. Was it just because they were already so bad off, weapon-wise, that they just couldn't afford to lose more members of their species when they had a bigger selection of food?

Then there's those who go a step farther in this direction and force their house pets -- of inherently carnivorous species -- to vegan foods. Am I the only one who thinks that's a really stupid idea?

You're not the only one.
Some people are just freakin' idiots.

Re: Random Tangent Time!

[midnightlynx]

But why did they develop this sense of members of their own species being off-limits? Some animals don't have that.

Comparatively low breeding rate.
When you have a few hundred every couple weeks, they can afford to eat each other once in a while without drastically impacting the survival of the species.
But when you can only really have one every nine months at best, it's a different story.

Re: Random Tangent Time!

[jeweleddragon]

That makes sense.

[midnightlynx]

I'm sorry.
I had to.

*scurries off*

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