alt.education

veritas wrote:
>So, you speak alpha- ape now, how interesting. Just because a alpha-
>ape MIGHT be able to communicate that, that doesn't put them in our
>class. Let's see one give one of the group a directional finder and
>tell them to find out where they are and were that damn river is, then
>I will be impressed.

I suspect that you could give 90% of the world's population a
direction finder and they wouldn't have a clue what to do with it.

>They are just animals,

So are we.

>we are sentient beings,

Actually, we don't know if they are sentient. They just haven't told
us. Recent experiments have shown that a lot of traits that we think
of as exclusively human are present in animals as well. The line
between us and other animals is a lot less certain than you seem to
think.

>that makes us a different species from them, and capable of making
>laws that everyone understands.

Then why do we need so many lawyers? Why is the USSC considering a
case based on the 2nd amendment which everybody understands ...
differently.

>Oh wait, I forgot about the U.S. laws,
>we all break 10 a day and don't even know we broke one.

Yep. Actually, we may break 100 a day, but we only know that we broke
10.

lojbab