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Re: Kills

Posted By: Welly (cache-mtc-ab03.proxy.aol.com)
Date: 10/8/2002 at 11:36 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Kills (Lord Raven)

: Not everyone fears death in the way that the average
: person does. What's to say that someone who doesn't
: fear it is unusual? Maybe we're all just weird, being
: scared of something we can't avoid. Sentience seems to
: have given us this arrogant self worth, what makes
: human life anymore important than feline or equine
: life? Aside from our own feeling of self-importance,
: we aren't any different.

All creatures have a feeling of self-importance. It's why a horse will run away when you chase it with fire, or why an armidillo rolls up in a shell... they seek to protect themselves because by instinct they know they're of worth.

We humans are the same way with the difference being: we can examine *why* we do that kind of thing. We can look at adrenaline and

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