#vegetarian #vegan #evolution Originally shared by Sean P. O. MacCath-Moran +Eve Volve: "Meat allowed us to evolve" Really? I think you're mistaken to believe this is a certainty, but what causes you to believe this is so, +Eve Volve ? As I understand it, there have been healthy, thriving vegetarians and vegans for as long as there have been humans. Some were so due to moral or ethical concerns, others due to resource utilization issues, others due to cultural taboos. All other factors being equal, the veg(etari)ans have thrived, and continue to do so. For some more recent historical examples of vegans, we can look at Pythagoras, the "Pythagoreans" (as vegans were called for the following 1300 years), along with a plethora of like-minded contemporaries (e.g. goo.gl/lgDBL ). Buddhists, Jainists, et al., have been doing grand as veg(etari)ans since around the 6th century BCE. Prior to this, there's compelling reason to believe that most people were veg...
Haven't read the article yet. But if it didn't have any life yet, then yes.
ReplyDeleteIf it has life, we should form hybrids and build upon their own evolution.... You know like how the greys have with us :)
An AI would only be able to recognise life as we know it, because that's what we'd program it to... I program for a living... and know what fuck-ups people do when coding complex stuff...
ReplyDeleteWe'd risk seeding life-bearing planets with microbes that would destroy them...
There was an episode of Star Trek Voyager about good intentions turning to disaster because not everything was considered:
memory-alpha.wikia.com - Friendship One (episode)