Gorilla DNA; Gorillas R\' Us; speech (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 01:38 (4541 days ago) @ David Turell

We may be hugely more advanced in language than they are, but their language has proved adequate for their needs
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> Exactly my point. Adequate for their needs, and our abilities are adequate for our needs. But that doesn't tell us why we are so advanced, in kind not degree. We could have survived as they do, but something happened to make us most unusual. 
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> > Yes, we have art, philosophy and self-awareness to the nth degree, and of course chimps and gorillas R not us. No-one ever said they were. But we owe them, we are more like them than we care to acknowledge, and if all this research leads us to greater empathy with them because of all the common factors, I for one will not begrudge the grant money.
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> Do you want to pay the taxes for that stupid grant money? On the basis of empathy? We owe them proper animal husbandry. We don't owe them for our development, but must use our development to properly protect them.-I agree with David on this one. The grant money does not save them, does not lead to the protection of their habitat, nor does it prevent their exploitation. While I admit that it does help raise public awareness, until humans change their fundamental outlook on our role on this planet, nothing will change.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.