Comments | white_death: This is a great quote

white_death

This is a great quote

Jul 22, 2009 08:46

...which I came across just now but haven't thought of for a long time.

The singular characteristic that distinguishes human beings from all other species is that we knowingly and often without legitimate reason cause each other to suffer. We lie to each other, cheat each other, rape each other, pummel and abandon each other, humiliate each other ( Read more... )

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mama_fortuna July 22 2009, 19:40:10 UTC

Chimps and dolphins are dicks too. Intelligence = mean animals, apparently.

white_death July 24 2009, 04:09:29 UTC

Yeah, I've seen that. I think I talked before about that video of the orcas torturing the baby seals before they ate them. It's messed up stuff.

Did I send you that? thelostdreamer July 22 2009, 21:29:26 UTC

It sounds really familiar. So true though.
And N seems right too.

Nope white_death July 24 2009, 04:08:31 UTC

It's from a book I used to quote in DJ.
As always!

peace_piper July 24 2009, 21:40:58 UTC

Here's another one.

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."