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Old 12-03-2007, 03:43 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I shall reword the question so that it is what I think the question means and which I am trying to answer.

If we accept that humans have dominant power over all other species; why is it that we are the only species that actively plan our own death?

If that is what the questioner means then obviously we are the only species that plans or own death because we are the only species that knows we humans are all mortal, the first part of the question is of no consequence.
I can believe the first part of your answer, Coberst; I'm still scratching my head over why man kills man for reasons other than food. and if this actually makes us dominant. We know we are intellectually superior. But does "intellectually superior" and "dominant" have any meaning(or truth) when we act this way? Gary and yourself are correct in that the question posed in the original wording is very misleading.
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