Quote:
Originally posted by Moiraine:
Oh, so the core of your thinking is now unveiled. You worship a God namely in the name of love, but ultimately it is power that counts. We are "superior" because we dominate, eh ?
|
No, that is how I would see the world without my God. It is my thinking without my God as point of reference. Put him back in and it's a different equation.
As far as "dominated" dominating requires superiority. Dominating indicates superiority. What do you call domesticity? What do you call breeding animals for food? What do you call the horse, the oxen, elephant and other beasts of burden? What do you call animals like monkeys experimented on? Battery hens that live their lives in cages? Mice that have ears grown on their backs by scientists? Rats that live off human excess in areas void of other parts of the animal kingdom? Lions removed from vast areas such as all Europe, dodos and other animals completely wiped out?
If that is not domination from a position of superiority I don't know what is.
Dominate:
1 : RULE, CONTROL
2 : to exert the supreme determining or guiding influence on
3 :
to overlook from a superior elevation or command because of superior height or position
4 : to have a commanding or preeminent place or position in
intransitive senses
1 : to have or exert mastery, control, or preeminence
2 : to occupy a more elevated or superior position
Humans exert the guiding influence on most species. Wiped out, pigs, cats, dogs and cows bred into palatable forms, their very genes determined by human intervention.
How is this not dominating? How is the decision to engage in driftnet fishing not determining whether masses of Dolphins live or die?
As a nonevolutionist, I see domineering attitudes in evolutionist and scientists, economists and financial barons concerned with money, just as evolutional thinking justified the horrific treatment of the Australian Aboriginie and the South African Bantu.
Were you aware that in Apartheidic South Africa, a scientific finding determined that the Bantu was indeed a human being? Sometime later a judge ruled that hunting them was illegal! Hunting Bantu was henceforth illegal!
I've seen the press articles concerned. Unbelievable. An attitude brought on by the belief that they were "missing links" in the evolutionary chain, and somewhere between Apes and humans. Horrifying!
So in any case, no it is NOT about power. I was simply stepping outside of myself to present a different line of argument. I can actually perceive the world from a different angle. 'Tis the nature of the artist. 