Originally posted by The Dark Cloud
Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again...I don't think humans are special and any more deserving of life on earth than the other species that live here.
I agree, and I would not mind a bit if lions tried to do everything in their power to save their species. Fair is fair.
Originally posted by Quark_666
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. When I said "to be equally correct," I meant both statements were false. I don't know how to make that any simpler. Are you missing what I'm saying on accident or on purpose?
Someday, when someone brings up killing people, or even fifty billion dollars, this little rant of yours is going to mean something and I'll probably be saying something similar. Meanwhile, you understand I don't have time for this....
You're right about everything.
See? That didn't change anything.
We still are underfunded in "human saving" projects and still underfunded on animal preservation projects.
So what good did our conversation do for anything other than point out the obvious?
Originally posted by The Dark CloudThe medical 'business' doesn't have a hive mind. You think it's each individual researcher's concern that a cure for major diseases is never found so that the med business can make money in the long term?
Lol at anyone who thinks that a business (in this case a $1.3 TRILLION dollar business) wouldn't manipulate things to it's benefit. It's hardly a conspiracy.
Besides, in the pursuit of finding a cure, we find ways to treat. If you're claiming that the money lies in the treatment, then its in the best interest monetarily for medical institutes to search for a cure and then charge tons for it. Look at every major treatment for cancer currently.
Your logic would make more sense if you were arguing for a conspiracy to increase cancer or at least decrease preventative efforts but given the number of household objects these days that are claimed to be leading causes of cancer, I wouldn't put much stock in that theory either.