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Let is start cutting the only 2-3 trees in your yard next to that river to build its dam, that had been there for over 30 years, giving you great shade and scenery and see how fast you get real mad about them finishing their job any time soon! (imagine some picturesque location near a river where you had a nice summer home)

I had a squirrel by the way destroy the intricate rope system i had outside in the garden to hang clothes in the sun for drying after washing them. That demonic little thing wanted to cut all the ropes in all possible ways and directions to render everything useless.

Now i wouldnt actually like killing it but i can see myself sending it in orbit with my foot if i could get a chance while in action and being very happy about the Delta-V delivered, after it had ignored some dozen attempts to scare it away! (persistent little sob lunatic bandit)

but they so cute you cant stay mad at something so cute for long.

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01-25-2015 , 01:28 AM

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Is it morally acceptable for me to kill a woodpecker that is destroying my house?

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01-25-2015 , 01:59 AM

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If these are the types of questions you think about, you have passed the psychopath test with flying colors.

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01-27-2015 , 07:36 PM

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LASJayhawk

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If they crack my aces twice in one session, I would say yes.

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01-29-2015 , 07:26 PM

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do insects count as animals?

No idea. However insects are animals.

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01-30-2015 , 01:17 PM

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Spiders do way more good for people than harm.

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01-31-2015 , 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by F_Ivanovic

Why do you believe it to be wrong though - ie. what thought process leads you to arrive at the assumption that it's wrong?

Because it's wrong.

Let Brian make something out of this answer.

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01-31-2015 , 08:38 AM

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Spiders do way more good for people than harm.

Maybe but if I didn't take pleasure in horrifically killing all the big ones with a lighter and some deodorant they'd totally evolve into giant spiders that would eat us for fun so I'm definitely doing the human race a favour.

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01-31-2015 , 10:06 AM

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I say hello to your little friend[with Cuban accent]

LOL

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01-31-2015 , 10:14 AM

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01-31-2015 , 10:16 AM

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Are you sure you are not named Marquis de Sade! with-out the porn then he LOL

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this was oblivious meant for masque de Z LOL

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01-31-2015 , 10:35 AM

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if you think it is right to kill animals for no other reasons then for pleasure, and you think it is wrong to do so to humans? i wonder who is the lesser species.

If you have overpopulation and people enjoy the hunt ok, there is a necessary-tie there, but killing a for instance elephant or lion or any other animal, just because they are there and you want to shoot one, for honor or status or bragging or any other sick twisted reason, then i think you should be the next one to be hunted and killed, and i would be happy to be the hunter, and i found out in the foreign legion as a sniper, you can enjoy killing a human if you know what evil he has committed, but i never even thought about killing a animal and have pleasure in it.

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01-31-2015 , 10:40 AM

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No idea. However insects are animals.

And they outnumber us by like a trillion to one, so don't piss them off LOL

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01-31-2015 , 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by plaaynde

Because it's wrong.

Let Brian make something out of this answer.

I couldn't parse the question into something sensible. What inferences led you to conclude your premise?

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01-31-2015 , 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by BrianTheMick2

What inferences led you to conclude your premise?

Probably this one:

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We start with a rule of assumptions:

(As) If φ is a member of Γ, then Γ ⊢ φ.

We thus have that {φ} ⊢ φ; each premise follows from itself.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/

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01-31-2015 , 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

Probably this one:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/

I was trying to paraphrase the question, not the answer. The answer made perfect sense.

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01-31-2015 , 08:27 PM

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Ah, that explains it.

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