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[Explicit]

I think another problem is that we are so illogical about life. We value human life more than other life, even when there is no logical reason to do so.

I completely agree. I value animal life as much as, if not more than, human life.

People like animals because they are innocent.

BUT, tell me you've never killed a fly, never hit a bird while driving, never stomped a roach into the ground.

Do you consider insects and the like animals?

[CrAz3D]

Insects are a group of animals called anthropods.

[Explicit]

Insects are a group of animals called anthropods.

Let me rephrase:  Are insects capable of intellectual thought?

[WoOdTroll]

Ants, bees, other instects work perfect together because there is intelligence behind it. They have instinct programed in them like animals, and humans.

[Adron]

Better question... Is there intelligence and absence of intelligence?

[CrAz3D]

Absence of intelligence would be no intelligence.  No intelligence would be a rock/plant?

[Adron]

But what if you move a light around a plant and it turns towards the plant? Or if you put a plant in a dark maze and put a light outside and it finds the way there? Solving problems? Intelligent?

[CrAz3D]

The plant wouldn't find its way through a maze.

& the plant grows towards the sun because that side of the plant grows more, it doesn't say "hey, more sun over there"...just that side of the plant grows healthier & such

[Adron]

The plant wouldn't find its way through a maze.

& the plant grows towards the sun because that side of the plant grows more, it doesn't say "hey, more sun over there"...just that side of the plant grows healthier & such

Not quite that simple. Plants actually can find their way through mazes. And plants can turn towards the sun, not just grow bigger on the side of the sun.

[CrAz3D]

I'm sure that the plant doesn't KNOW there is sun, unless some sunlight is actually getting through to the plant.

[Adron]

I'm sure that the plant doesn't KNOW there is sun, unless some sunlight is actually getting through to the plant.

Actually, neither would a human locked in a maze know there is an exit...

[CrAz3D]

I'm sure that the plant doesn't KNOW there is sun, unless some sunlight is actually getting through to the plant.

Actually, neither would a human locked in a maze know there is an exit...

A human could deduce that there was a way in so there must be a way out, assuming the person has had some sort of life experience and is capable to learn

[Adron]

A human could deduce that there was a way in so there must be a way out, assuming the person has had some sort of life experience and is capable to learn

There does not have to be a way out. The mace might be sealed. The human may have come into existence inside the maze.

[WoOdTroll]

Don't plants also open up during the day, and close during the night?

[CrAz3D]

Screw it, plants aren't intelligent.

Intelligence:
   The faculty of thought and reason.

Plants cannot think because they have no mind.