Reply #28: Clams are sentient beings? [View All]

[aspergris]

Clams don't have BRAINS, so how can they be sentient

Your ignorance is showing. Clams react to stimuli, sure. But so does a plant. You eat plants, right?

So, you are already striking out in the logic and science dept. It's like arguing with a creationist. Your knowledge (lack thereof) of science hurts my brain.

I am fine if you choose not to eat clams. But to claim they are sentient shows you are either woefully ignorant, or you have some special insight into sentience that no biologist has. Wow! You are holy and in possession of super secret claim sentience knowledge!

Your other section of the post is equally ignorant. Yes, we had 200 yrs of legalized slavery. There are cultures today that have had many TIMES that much legalized slavery and STILL have it. Many many more cultures had more years of slavery. Many other cultures treated slaves far worse (brazil, for example). That's easily verifiable by the # of slave deaths per slave. Much higher in their culture than we had.

Yes, it's wrong that (the extremely rare instances) of torture are ok'd by bushco. But it's far worse that some cultures routinely torture and even kill people for adultery, for being gay, for daring to proselytize christianity, for mocking islam.

But we are the WORST culture? lol

You need to open a book and your mind.

It's closed and functioning very poorly.